bee violet
bee violet noun: a color visible to bees that has a frequency of about 400 mμ, spanning a portion of the spectrum that covers violet blue through the lower frequencies of the ultraviolet range.
Noun
bee violet (countable and uncountable, plural bee violets)
- A color visible to bees that has a frequency of about 400 mμ, spanning a portion of the spectrum that covers violet blue through the lower frequencies of the ultraviolet range.
- Karl von Frisch discovered that honey bees can see six colors—blue, blue-green, yellow, bee purple, ultraviolet, and bee violet.2010, Martha Scott, Honey Bee, Where Are You?
- To a bee, it is a carelessly formed, perhaps Impressionistic world in which movement carries great meaning and in which the richness of color is extended to endow two flowers, each an insipid white to us, with radically different shades of "bee-violet."2013, Arthur C. Giese, Photophysiology, page 79
Forms of bee violet
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Questions about bee violet
- What does bee violet mean?
- Bee violet means a color visible to bees that has a frequency of about 400 mμ, spanning a portion of the spectrum that covers violet blue through the lower frequencies of the ultraviolet range.
- What part of speech is bee violet?
- Bee violet is a noun.
- What is the plural of bee violet?
- The plural of bee violet is bee violets.
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