noun
robust hairy social bee of temperate regions
• Syn: ↑bumblebee
• Hypernyms: ↑bee
• Member Holonyms: ↑Bombus, ↑genus Bombus
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/hum"beuhl bee'/, n. Chiefly Brit.
bumblebee.
[1400-50; late ME humbul-be; akin to D hommel drone, G Hummelbiene kind of wild-bee, MLG homelbe; prob. akin to HUM]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.