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Definition: Bee Moth |
Bee MothNoun1. Moth whose larvae live in and feed on bee honeycombs. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | A moth whose larva feeds on the wax of the combs of the honeybee. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: Bee MothSynonym: wax moth (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Bee Moth |
| English words defined with "bee moth": Galleria mellonella ♦ Pseudotinea ♦ Wax moth. (references) |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bee moth | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 grande traça da cera (greater wax moth). (various references) polilla (clothes moth, greater wax moth, moth), falsa tina de las abejas (greater wax moth). (various references) vaxmal (greater wax moth), stort vaxmott (greater wax moth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Galleria mellonella(Lepidoptera). (various references) |
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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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 65      4D 6F 74 68 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01100101 00100000 01001101 01101111 01110100 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e e   M o t h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0065      004D 006F 0074 0068 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)367171247818674 |
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