Africanized honey bee
Africanized honey bee · Africanized honey bees
Synonym of Africanized beeSynonym of Africanized bee.
Meaning
1 sensesSynonym of Africanized bee.
More definitions
- a strain of bees that originated in Brazil in the 1950s as a cross between an aggressive African bee and a honeybee; retains most of the traits of the African bee; now spread as far north as Texas
Forms
plural: Africanized honey bees| Singular | Africanized honey bee |
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Synonyms
4 synonymsClose in meaning
- a strain of bees that originated in Brazil in the 1950s as a cross between an aggressive African bee and a honeybee; retains most of the traits of the African bee; now spread as far north as Texas:Africanized beekiller beeApis mellifera scutellataApis mellifera adansonii