honey bee
/ˈhʌni ˌbiː/
honey bee noun: any of many species of bee, in genus Apis, often kept commercially for honey, beeswax, and pollination of crops.
Noun
honey bee (plural honey bees)
- Any of many species of bee, in genus Apis, often kept commercially for honey, beeswax, and pollination of crops.
- Synonyms:
- honeymaker[ludic]] or poetic when used at all>
honey bee meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
honey bee in Hindi
- honey bee
- मधुमक्खी madhumakkhī
honey bee in Tamil
- honey bee
- தேனீ tēṉī
honey bee in Marathi
- honey bee
- मधमाशी madhmāśī
honey bee in Bengali
- honey bee
- মৌমাছি mōumachi
More languagesFewer languages
- honey bee in Telugu
- తేనెటీగ tēneṭīga
- honey bee in Malayalam
- തേനീച്ച tēnīcca
- honey bee in Kannada
- ಜೇನುಹುಳ, ಜೇನುನೊಣ, ಜೇನ್ನೊಣ, ಜೇನೊಣ
- honey bee in Gujarati
- મધમાખી madhmākhī
- honey bee in Assamese
- মৌমাখি moumakhi
- honey bee in Tagalog
- pukyot
- honey bee in Arabic
- نَحْل naḥl, نَحْلَة الْعَسَلِ
- honey bee in Indonesian
- lebah madu
- honey bee in Persian
- زنبور عسل zanbur-e 'asal
- Kashmiri
- ماچھ تُلٕر māch tulụr
Synonyms of honey bee
- honeymaker[ludic]] or poetic when used at all>
Forms of honey bee
| plural | honey bees |
|---|---|
| alternative form | honeybee |
Origin of honey bee
Inherited from Middle English hony bee.
Words formed from honey bee
- black dwarf honey bee
- Cape honey bee
- Carniolan honey bee
- Caucasian honey bee
- dwarf honeybee
- East African lowland honey bee
- eastern honey bee
- European honeybee
- giant honey bee
- Japanese honey bee
- Himalayan giant honey bee
- Himalayan honey bee
- Indonesian honey bee
- Koschevnikov's honey bee
- Maltese honey bee
- Philippine honey bee
- red dwarf honey bee
- western honeybee
Questions about honey bee
- What does honey bee mean?
- Honey bee means any of many species of bee, in genus Apis, often kept commercially for honey, beeswax, and pollination of crops.
- What is honey bee in Hindi?
- Honey bee in Hindi is मधुमक्खी (madhumakkhī). See Honey bee meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is honey bee?
- Honey bee is a noun.
- How do you pronounce honey bee?
- Honey bee is pronounced /ˈhʌni ˌbiː/.
- What is the plural of honey bee?
- The plural of honey bee is honey bees.
Words near honey bee in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: honey bee (page history and authors); honey bee (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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