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Africanized bees

Africanized bees is the plural of Africanized bee.

Meaning of Africanized bee

Noun

Africanized bee (plural Africanized bees)

  1. A hybrid of the western honey bee (Apis mellifera), produced originally by crossbreeding of the East African lowland honey bee (A. m. scutellata) with various European honey bee subspecies such as the Italian honey bee (A. m. ligustica) and the Iberian honey bee (A. m. iberiensis), and known for being defensive and aggressive.

Questions about Africanized bees

What is Africanized bees the plural of?
Africanized bees is the plural of Africanized bee.

Words near Africanized bees in the dictionary

  1. Africanization
  2. Africanizations
  3. Africanize
  4. Africanized
  5. Africanized bee
  6. Africanized bees
  7. Africanized honey bee
  8. Africanizes
  9. Africanizing
  10. Africanjujuism
  11. Africanjujuisms

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