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Meaning of bee purple | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A color that is a mixture of ultraviolet light and yellow light (the two extremes of the visual spectrum of the bee, analogous to the way purple for humans is a mixture of red and violet, the two extremes of the human visual spectrum).

countable, uncountable

Examples

“Karl von Frisch discovered that honey bees can see six colors—blue, blue-green, yellow, bee purple, ultraviolet, and bee violet.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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