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humblebee

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A bumblebee.

obsolete

Examples

“The Fox, the Ape, and the Humble-Bee, Were ſtill at oddes being but three.”
“1800's, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Humblebee Burly, dozing humblebee, Where thou art is clime for me.”
“Hence I have⟳ very little doubt⟳, that if the whole genus of humble-bees became extinct or very rare in England, the heartsease and red clover would become⟳ very rare, or wholly disappear⟳.”

CEFR level

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