honeybee
honeybee — noun
1. a flying insect that collects nectar from flowers and lives in a large colony, p
a flying insect that collects nectar from flowers and lives in a large colony, producing sweet honey inside its wax hive
Honeybees collect nectar from flowers and turn it into sweet honey inside their hive.
often plural: honeybees + collect nectar / turn into honey
A honeybee landed on a sunflower and covered its legs with bright yellow pollen.
Sophia keeps several hives in her garden, where thousands of honeybees make honey every summer.
A honeybee can visit over a thousand flowers in one day while searching for food.
- bee
broader term that includes honeybees, bumblebees, and many other species; less precise
文法句型
countable noun
usually plural when referring to the species as a whole
用法筆記
Often used in the plural form (honeybees) when talking about the species or a group rather than one individual insect. The singular form (a honeybee) usually refers to a specific single insect.