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colony collapse disorder

colony collapse disorder noun: a mysterious and widespread phenomenon of the sudden disappearance of colonies of bees.

Noun

colony collapse disorder (uncountable)

  1. A mysterious and widespread phenomenon of the sudden disappearance of colonies of bees.
    • As many as a quarter of the nation's commercially kept bees went missing last year, presumed dead, in a phenomenon now called colony collapse disorder.2007 May 12, “Mysterious Honeybee Deaths”, in Houston Chronicle
    • Interaction among multiple pathogens and parasites is the proposed cause for Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), a syndrome characterized by worker bees abandoning the hive. Here we provide the first documentation that the phorid fly Apocephalus borealis, previously known to parasitize bumble bees...2012 January 3, Andrew Core, Charles Runckel, Jonathan Ivers, Christopher Quock, Travis Siapno, Seraphina DeNault, Brian Brown, Joseph DeRisi, Christopher D. Smith, John Hafernik, “A New Threat to...

Questions about colony collapse disorder

What does colony collapse disorder mean?
Colony collapse disorder means a mysterious and widespread phenomenon of the sudden disappearance of colonies of bees.
What part of speech is colony collapse disorder?
Colony collapse disorder is a noun.

Words near colony collapse disorder in the dictionary

  1. colons
  2. Colonsay
  3. colonus
  4. colony
  5. Colony and Dominion of Virginia
  6. colony collapse disorder
  7. colony counter
  8. colony counters
  9. Colony of Virginia
  10. colony-forming unit
  11. colony-forming units

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