bumblebee
pronunciation
How to pronounce bumblebee in British English:
UK [ˈbʌmblbi:]
How to pronounce bumblebee in American English:
US [ˈbʌmbəlˌbi]
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- Noun:
- robust hairy social bee of temperate regions
Word Origin
- bumblebee (n.)
- also bumble-bee, 1520s, replacing Middle English humbul-be (altered by association with Middle English bombeln "to boom, buzz," late 14c.); echoic, from PIE echoic root *kem "to hum."
Example
- 1. This must be what heaven looks like to a bumblebee .
- 2. 1 / 16 A bumblebee loaded with orange pollen load flies to to mullein flower , part of the verbascum genus
- 3. Shelly saw it a mile away . A big , fat bumblebee . She kept her distance . Already today she had been stung twice .
- 4. Unlike those of honeybees , bumblebee colonies do not survive the winter ; they must be refounded by a hibernating queen .
- 5. Some filmgoers have commented that the real stars of ' transformers : revenge of the fallen ' are not shia labeouf and megan fox , but the gm line-up of cars , led by the chevrolet camaro as the autobot bumblebee .