Meaning

1 senses
  1. A bee of the subfamily Xylocopinae, that burrows in dead wood.

    Holzbiene

    пчела́-пло́тникpčelá-plótnik, ксилоко́паksilokópa, древогнёздdrevognjózd

More definitions
  • large solitary bee that lays eggs in tunnels bored into wood or plant stems

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Carpenter bees are solitary.

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  2. That's not a bumblebee. It's a carpenter bee.

    ruЭто не шмель, а пчела-плотник.

    deDas ist keine Hummel, sondern eine Holzbiene.

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  3. Bees indigenous to North America include bumblebees and carpenter bees, along with a number of specialists in native wildflowers.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
Xylocopinae:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
Xylocopinae:

Forms

plural: carpenter bees
Singularcarpenter bee
Pluralcarpenter bees

regular

See also

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