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Wallace's giant bee

Wallace's giant bee noun: megachile pluto, a very large Indonesian resin bee.

Noun

Wallace's giant bee (plural Wallace's giant bees)

  1. Megachile pluto, a very large Indonesian resin bee.

Forms of Wallace's giant bee

pluralWallace's giant bees

Origin of Wallace's giant bee

Originally collected by Alfred Russel Wallace in 1858.

Questions about Wallace's giant bee

What does Wallace's giant bee mean?
Wallace's giant bee means megachile pluto, a very large Indonesian resin bee.
What part of speech is Wallace's giant bee?
Wallace's giant bee is a noun.
What is the plural of Wallace's giant bee?
The plural of Wallace's giant bee is Wallace's giant bees.

Words near Wallace's giant bee in the dictionary

  1. Wallace Line
  2. Wallace lines
  3. Wallace rule of nines
  4. Wallace tree
  5. Wallace trees
  6. Wallace's giant bee
  7. Wallace's Line
  8. Wallace's standard-wing
  9. Wallace's standard-wings
  10. Wallace-Bolyai-Gerwien theorem
  11. Wallace-Woodworth

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