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US
/ˈbəmbəɫˌbi/
]
[ UK /bˈʌmbəlbˌiː/ ]
[ UK /bˈʌmbəlbˌiː/ ]
NOUN
- robust hairy social bee of temperate regions
How To Use bumblebee In A Sentence
- A moving aerofoil generates more lift than a stationary one, and that's the principle that keeps bumblebees in the air. Times, Sunday Times
- Bumblebees and the more poetic kind of astrophysicist would surely love her work. Times, Sunday Times
- The monsters are like bumblebees, an engineering nightmare.
- They look enough like bumblebees to put off predators, even though they are stingless. Times, Sunday Times
- Sarah's dad was already getting bumblebee socks for Christmas, but now he was also to receive a terracotta dunny.
- Honeybees (the few that have so far escaped the Varroa mites), bumblebees, various flies and beetles, and the hummingbird clearwing (a moth that thinks it's a hummingbird) frequent milkweeds too.
- My favorite transformer is still bumblebee, but I also like, Iron hide, Star scream, and so on, But where the hell was ratchet? New Transformers 2 Robots Revealed: The Twins, Arcee, Jetfire, and More! « FirstShowing.net
- A restaurant's courtyard in Oaxaca is covered with a lavender-flowering vine, attracting bumblebees and small birds.
- The monsters are like bumblebees, an engineering nightmare.
- Bird's-foot trefoil and bugloss, poppies and cornflowers, fumitory and fleabane – there were about 20 species all in bloom and, aside from the great surge of colour, the highlight for me was the bumblebees, mainly common carder and red-tailed bumblebees, that trafficked through the flowers all day long. Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk