worker bee

English

An illustration of worker bees (1840)

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Noun

worker bee (plural worker bees)

  1. A sterile bee whose specialty is to support the hive, especially by collecting pollen.
    • 1991, Gene Stratton-Porter, The Keeper of the Bees, reprint edition, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 197:
      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.

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