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Meaning of humblebee | Babel Free

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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