worker bee en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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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:
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Translations (28)
sq zogë (sterile bee) · fi työläinen (sterile bee) · fr abeille ouvrière (sterile bee) · eo laborabelo (sterile bee) · ast obrera (sterile bee) · ga beach oibre (sterile bee) · sh ра́дилица (sterile bee) · ja 働きバチ (sterile bee) · nl werkbij (sterile bee) · mi pī kaimahi (sterile bee) · es abeja obrera (sterile bee) · fr ouvrière (sterile bee) · da arbejdsbi (sterile bee) · pl robotnica (sterile bee) · nl werkster (sterile bee) · it ape operaia (sterile bee) · tr işçi arı (sterile bee) · da arbejderbi (sterile bee) · ca abella obrera (sterile bee) · de Arbeiterin (sterile bee) · pt abelha-operária (sterile bee) · ru рабо́чая пчела́ (sterile bee) · sh rádilica (sterile bee) · bg пчела-работничка (sterile bee) · fi työmehiläinen (sterile bee) · ja 働き蜂 (sterile bee) · ro albină lucrătoare (sterile bee) · cmn 工蜂 (sterile bee)