Bee Moth

  

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Bee Moth

Definition: Bee Moth

Bee Moth

Noun

1. Moth whose larvae live in and feed on bee honeycombs.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Specialty Definitions: Bee Moth

DomainDefinitions

Food & Agriculture

A moth whose larva feeds on the wax of the combs of the honeybee. Source: European Union. (references)

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Synonym: Bee Moth

Synonym: wax moth (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Bee Moth

English words defined with "bee moth": Galleria mellonellaPseudotineaWax moth. (references)

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Image Slideshow: Bee Moth

Illustrations:
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bee Moth

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bee moth

6
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Modern Translations: Bee Moth

Language Translations for "bee moth"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

voksmoel (greater wax moth). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

grote wasmot (greater wax moth). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

isovahakoisa (greater wax moth). (various references)

   

French

  

fausse teigne des abeilles. (various references)

   

German

  

große Wachsmotte der Bienen (greater wax moth). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μεγάλος κηρόσκορος των μελισσών (greater wax moth). (various references)

   

Italian

  

piralide degli alveari (greater wax moth), mielivora (greater wax moth), grande tignola della cera (greater wax moth). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eebay othmay

   

Portuguese

  

grande traça da cera (greater wax moth). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

polilla (clothes moth, greater wax moth, moth), falsa tina de las abejas (greater wax moth). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vaxmal (greater wax moth), stort vaxmott (greater wax moth). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Bee Moth

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Galleria mellonella(Lepidoptera). (various references)

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Anagrams: Bee Moth

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-e-h-m-o-t"

-2 letters: emote, thebe, theme.

-3 letters: beet, beth, both, hebe, heme, home, meet, mete, meth, mote, moth, teem, thee, them, tomb, tome.

-4 letters: bee, bet, bot, eme, eth, hem, het, hob, hoe, hot, met, mho, mob, mot, obe, ohm, tee, the, tho, toe, tom.

-5 letters: be, bo, eh, em, et, he, hm, ho, me, mo, oe.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-e-h-m-o-t"
 

+1 letter: behemoth, boehmite.

 

+2 letters: behemoths, boehmites.

 

+3 letters: besmoothed, blithesome, bothersome.

 

+4 letters: debouchment, embryophyte, theobromine.

 

+5 letters: blithesomely, debouchments, embryophytes, mouthbreeder, phlebotomies, theobromines, thermolabile, thermostable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Bee Moth


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 65 65      4D 6F 74 68

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100101 01100101 00100000 01001101 01101111 01110100 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#101 &#32 &#77 &#111 &#116 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 0065      004D 006F 0074 0068

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

367171247818674

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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