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worker bees

worker bees is the plural of worker bee.

Meaning of worker bee

Noun

worker bee (plural worker bees)

  1. A sterile bee whose specialty is to support the hive, especially by collecting pollen.
    • Then, a worker bee has got six thousand eyes of each side of its head so it can see the flowers that it wants to get the pollen and the nectar from.1991, Gene Stratton-Porter, The Keeper of the Bees, reprint edition, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 197

Questions about worker bees

What is worker bees the plural of?
Worker bees is the plural of worker bee.

Words near worker bees in the dictionary

  1. worked up
  2. worked wonders
  3. workedst
  4. worker
  5. worker bee
  6. worker bees
  7. worker's comp
  8. worker's compensation
  9. worker-priest
  10. worker-priests
  11. workeress

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