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Definition: Bee |
BeeNoun1. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species. 2. A social gathering to carry out some communal task or to hold competitions. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Bee" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a voyager", "a traveler", "blessed". |
Date "bee" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Bible | Bee First mentioned in Deut. 1:44. Swarms of bees, and the danger of their attacks, are mentioned in Ps. 118:12. Samson found a "swarm of bees" in the carcass of a lion he had slain (Judg. 14:8). Wild bees are described as laying up honey in woods and in clefts of rocks (Deut. 32:13; Ps. 81:16). In Isa. 7:18 the "fly" and the "bee" are personifications of the Egyptians and Assyrians, the inveterate enemies of Israel. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Literature | Bee The Athenian Bee. Plato. (See Athenian Bee , page 72, col. 1.) It is said that when Plato was in his cradle, a swarm of bees alighted on his mouth. The story is good enough for poets and orators. The same tale is told of St. Ambrose. (See Ambrose, page 41, col. 1.) The Bee of Athens. Sophocles. (See Attic Bee, page 73, col. 1.) Xenophon (B.C. 444-359) is also called "the Bee of Athens," or "the Athenian Bee." See also Animals, page 50, col. 2. To have your head full of bees. Full of devices, crotchets, fancies, inventions, and dreamy theories. The connection between bees and the soul was once generally maintained: hence Mahomet admits bees to Paradise. Porphyry says of fountains, "they are adapted to the nymphs, or those souls which the ancients called bees." The moon was called a bee by the priestesses of Ceres, and the word lunatic or moon-struck still means one with "bees in his head." Il a des rats dans la tête."- French Proverb. (See Maggot.) To have a bee in your bonnet. To be cranky; to have an idiosyncrasy; also, to carry a jewel or ornament in your cap. (See Bighes.) "For pity, air, find out that bee That bore my love away- `I'll seek him in your bonnet brave. ..." Herrick: The Mad Maid's Song. Bee A social gathering for some useful work. The object generally precedes the word, as a spelling - bee (a gathering to compete in spelling). There are apple-bees, husking-bees, and half a dozen other sorts of bees or gatherings. It is an old Devonshire custom, which was carried across the Atlantic in Elizabethan times. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Bees
Larger versionScientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Hymenoptera Superfamily: Apoidea Families Andrenidae
Anthophoridae
Apidae
Colletidae
Ctenoplectridae
Halictidae
Megachilidae
Melittidae
Stenotritidae
Bees are flying insects, closely related to wasps and ants. They are adapted for feeding on nectar, and play an important role in pollinating flowering plants. Bees have a long tongue that they use in order to obtain the nectar from flowers. Bees have antennae made up of thirteen segments in males and twelve in females. They have two pairs of wings the back pair being the smaller of the two. Their legs are modified so that they can gather pollen and the apex of their stomachs are modified into a stinger.
There are over 16,000 described species, and possibly around 30,000 species in total.Bees may be solitary, or may live in various sorts of communities. The most advanced of these are eusocial colonies, found among the honeybees and stingless bees. Sociality is believed to have evolved separately in different groups of bees.
Eusocial Bees
Eusocial bees live in large hives, each of which has a single queen, together with workerss and drones.
The life cycle of bumblebees begins in the spring when the queen bee rises from hibernation. At this time the queen bee is the one who does all the work because there are no worker bees to do the work yet. She searches for a place to build her nest and she builds the honeypots. She also does the foraging to collect nectar and pollen. Bumblebee colonies die off in the fall, after raising a last generation of queens, which suvive individually in found hiding spots. Interestingly bumblebee queens sometimes seek winter safety in honeybee hives, where they are sometimes found dead in the spring by beekeepers, presumably stung to death by the honeybees. It is not known whether any succed in winter survival in such an environment.
With honeybees, which survive winter as a colony, the queen begins egg laying in winter, to prepare for spring. This is probably triggered by day length. She is the only fertile female, and deposits all the eggs from which the other bees are produced. Except for her one mating flight or to establish a new colony, the queen rarely leaves the hive after the larva have become full grown bees. The queen deposits each egg in a cell prepared by the worker bees. The egg hatches into a small larva which is fed by nurse bees (worker bees who maintain the interior of the colony). After about a week (depending on species), the larva is sealed up in its cell by the nurse bees. After another week (again, depending on species), it will emerge an adult bee.
The larvae and pupae in a frame of honeycome are referred to as frames of brood and are often sold (with adhering bees) by beekeepers to other beekeepers to start new beehives.
Both workers and queens are fed royal jelly during the first three days of the larval stage. Then workers are switched to a diet of pollen and nectar or diluted honey, while those intended for queens will continue to receive royal jelly. This causes the larva to develop to the pupa stage more quickly, while being also larger and fully developed sexually. Queen breeders consider good nutrition during the larval stage to be of critical importance to the quality of the queens raised, good genetics and sufficient number of matings also being factors. During the larval and pupal stages, various parasites can attack the pupa/larva and destroy or mutate it.
Peanut-like queen brood cells
are extended outward from the broodcomb.Queens are not raised in typical horizontal brood cells of the honeycomb. They are specially constructed to be much larger, and have a vertical orientation. As the queen finishes her larval feeding, and pupates, she moves into a head downward position, from which she will later chew her way out of the cell. At pupation the workers cap or seal the cell. Just prior to emerging from their cells, young queens can often be heard "piping." This is considered likely to be a challenge to other queens for battle.
Worker bees are infertile females. Worker bees secrete the wax used to build the hive, clean and maintain the hive, raise the young, guard the hive and forage for nectar and pollen.
In honeybees, the worker bees have a modified ovipositor called a stinger with which they can sting to defend the hive, but the bee will die soon after.
Drone bees are the male bees of the colony. Drone honeybees do not forage for nectar or pollen. The primary purpose of a drone bee is to fertilize a new queen. Drones mate with the queen in flight. They die immediately after mating.
In some species, drones are suspected of playing a contributing role in the temperature regulation of the hive. Drone bees have no stinger, since a stinger is actually a modified ovipositor.
Queens live on an average about three years. The workers have but a brief existence, not three months long on an average.
Honeybee queens release pheromones to regulate hive activities, and worker bees also produce pheromones for various communications.
Solitary, communal, and quasisocial Bees
Some other bees form small colonies. For example, most species of bumblebee (Bombus terrestris, B. pratorum, et al.) live in colonies of 30-400 bees. (By contrast, an average honeybee hive at the height of summer will have 40,000 - 80,000 bees.) The queen bee is typically able to survive on her own for at least a short time (unlike queens in eusocial species who must be cared for at all times).
Other species of bee such as the Orchard Mason bee (Osmia lignaria) and the hornfaced bee (Osmia cornifrons) are solitary in that every female is fertile. There are no worker bees for these species. Solitary bees typically produce neither honey nor beeswax. They are immune from tracheal and varroa mites. (see diseases of the honeybee)
Kleptoparasitic Bees
Cuckoo bees are bumblebee look-alikes that invade bumblebee nests and lay their eggs. The bumblebees raise the young as their own. Megachilid bees also have other megachilid Coelioxys bees whose young are placed into the already provisioned nests of these solitary bees. They destroy the host larvae and eat the food.
Miscellaneous
All bees eat nectar and pollen. Bees are excellent pollinators and play an important role in agriculture.Bees are the favorite meal of Merops apiaster, a bird.
See also
- Africanized bee
- bee learning and communication
- honeybee
- The life cycle of Honeybee
- how to tell bees from wasps
External links
- Bees, Bee pollen, How Bees Make Honey & Bee facts
- Honey Bee, Carpenter bee, Bumble bee, Africanized honey bees
- Carl Hayden Bee Research Center
- Pollinator Paradise (solitary bees)
- [1] Raising honeybee queens
Taxonomy
- Bees of the World, C. D. Michener (200)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bee."
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Bee is a village located in Seward County, Nebraska. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 223.Geography
Bee is located at 41°0'21" North, 97°3'29" West (41.005857, -97.057969)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.6 km² (0.2 mi²). 0.6 km² (0.2 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 223 people, 84 households, and 60 families residing in the village. The population density is 344.4/km² (899.2/mi²). There are 89 housing units at an average density of 137.5/km² (358.9/mi²). The racial makeup of the village is 99.10% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.90% from two or more races. 0.00% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 84 households out of which 33.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.7% are married couples living together, 6.0% have a female householder with no husband present, and 27.4% are non-families. 22.6% of all households are made up of individuals and 13.1% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.65 and the average family size is 3.13. In the village the population is spread out with 28.3% under the age of 18, 5.4% from 18 to 24, 33.2% from 25 to 44, 18.8% from 45 to 64, and 14.3% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 35 years. For every 100 females there are 110.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 119.2 males. The median income for a household in the village is $42,917, and the median income for a family is $44,583. Males have a median income of $26,500 versus $18,750 for females. The per capita income for the village is $18,388. 6.6% of the population and 7.3% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 0.0% are under the age of 18 and 14.7% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bee, Nebraska."
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Honeybee queens are developed from larvae selected by worker bees to become sexually mature. In each hive or colony, there is normally only one adult, mated queen, who is the mother of the bees of the hive, although there are exceptions.
Peanut-like queen brood cells
extend outward from the broodcomb.
Queen Larva Floating on Royal Jelly
in open queen cell
Development
The queen develops more fully than sexually immature workers, because she is given royal jelly, a secretion from glands on the heads of young workers, for an extended time, and she is given a specially constructed cell, which is larger than the cells of normal brood comb, and also is oriented vertically instead of horizontally. There are three kinds of queen bee cells: large, solitary cells, usually on the bottom of the comb (or in a hole if in the middle of the comb), constructed by the workers when they want to replace the queen; smaller groupped cells, at the same positions as previous, constructed when the colony is swarming; and solitary cells usually on the surface of the middle of the comb, constructed as expansion of a normal cell if a colony looses its queen. The best queens are those from replacement cells.
Queen cell opened to show
queen pupa (with darkening eyes).As the young queen larva pupates with her head down, the workers cap the cell with beeswax. When ready to emerge, she will chew a circular cut around the cap of her cell. Often the cap swings open when most of the cut is made, so as to appear like a hinged lid.
When the young queens are ready to emerge, they often begin to "pipe," a shrill peeping, which is thought to be a challenge to other emerged or ready to emerge virgins. Unless the workers restrain them, emerged virgins will quickly find and kill rivals. During the swarm season, workers may separate young queens, thus keeping alive more than one for a brief period. The extra queens may go with swarms or afterswarms, to sort out their survial in a new home.
Reproduction
When one queen survives in a colony, she will go out, on a sunny, warm day to mate with 12-15 drones. She has only a limited time to mate, and if she is unable to fly, because of bad weather, and remains unmated, she will become a "drone layer." Drone laying queens usually mean the death of the colony, because the queens have no fertilized (female) larvae from which to raise a replacement. If there is a deficit of drones, or the weather provides too brief a window for full mating, the queen may be able to function briefly, laying fertilized eggs for a few weeks or months, but will begin to lay drone eggs at some point earlier than the normal 2-3 year life span of queens.If workers realize their queen is failing, and the weather will allow a replacement to be raised and mated, the bees can "supercede" the queen. However, supercedure will fail in winter in colder climates, because there are no drones and the queens cannot fly to mate.
Adult queen with attendants
Daily Life for the Queen
A queen has no control of the hive, as the name might imply, but she is the reproductive portion. Actually she is an "egg laying machine." A good queen, of quality stock, well reared with good nutrition, and well mated, can lay about 2,000 eggs per day during the spring build-up, and live for two or more years. She lays her own weight in eggs every couple hours, and is continuously surrounded by young worker attendants, who meet her every need, giving her feed, and disposing of her waste. They also lick her body for the pheromones that are needed for well being of the colony.Because the social structure is so complex and fixed, honeybee colonies can be thought of as an organism, and the individual bees are simply cells of the organism; they cannot survive on their own. The queen is responsible for the reproduction of the "cells", but also is responsible through her own pheromone production for the reproduction of the whole colony. This usually takes place in the spring and is called swarming.
Swarm Management
During the first year of a queen's life the colony has little incentive to swarm, unless the hive is very crowded. During her second spring, however, she seems to be programmed to swarm. Without beekeeper "swarm management" in the second year, the hive will cast a "prime swarm" and one to five "after swarms." The old queen will go with the prime swarm, and others will be accompanied by virgins. For a beekeeper to allow swarming is equivalent to a cattleman losing all his calves. Furthermore the hive that cast the swarm is often so badly depleted that it will be unproductive for the entire season. For this reason, beekeepers try to anticipate swarming and assist the bees to reproduce in a more controlled fashion by "splitting hives" or making "nucs." This saves the "calves" and keeps the "cow" in condition to accomplish some work.For more information on the bio-chemical factors that govern swarming, see this external link.
Color Used for
years
ending inwhite 1 or 6 yellow 2 or 7 red 3 or 8 green 4 or 9 blue 5 or 0 As is visible in the photograph preceding the "Daily Life" section, the queen is noticeably longer than the worker honeybees surrounding her. However, in a hive of 60-80,000 honeybees, it is often difficult for beekeepers to find the queen with any speed: for this reason, many queens in non-feral colonies are marked with a light daub of paint on their thorax. The paint used does no harm to the queen, and makes her much easier to find when necessary. Although the color is sometimes randomly chosen, professional queen breeders use a system whereby the color of a queen's dot indicates what year she hatched (therefore aiding beekeepers who are deciding whether their queens are too old to maintain a strong hive, and need replacing). Sometimes, even a tiny plate is used with the number of the queen.
Queen bees cannot live more then five years.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Queen bee."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
BEE | English | Black Economic Empowerment | Economics |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Activity | Housewife, busy bee; new brooms; sharp fellow, sharp blade; devotee, enthusiast, zealot, meddler, intermeddler, intriguer, busybody, pickthank; hummer, hustler, live man, rustler. |
Busy, occupied; hard at work, hard at it; up to one's ears in, full of business, busy as a bee, busy as a one-armed paperhanger. | |
Adjective: active, brisk, brisk as a lark, brisk as a bee; lively, animated, vivacious; alive, alive and kicking; frisky, spirited, stirring. | |
Agent | Bee, ant, working bee, termite, white ant; laboring oar, servant of all work, factotum. |
Animal | Ant, mosquito, bee, honeybee. |
Cheerfulness | Adjective: cheerful; happy; cheery, cheerly; of good cheer, smiling; blithe; in spirits, in good spirits; breezy, bully, chipper; in high spirits, in high feather; happy as the day is long, happy as a king; gay as a lark; allegro; debonair; light, lightsome, light hearted; buoyant, debonnaire, bright, free and easy, airy; janty, jaunty, canty; hedonic; riant; sprightly, sprightful; spry; spirited, spiritful; lively, animated, vivacious; brisk as a bee; sparkling, sportive; full of play, full of spirit; all alive. |
Direction | Adverb: towards; on the road, on the high road to; en avant; versus, to; hither, thither, whither; directly; straight as an arrow, forwards as an arrow; point blank; in a bee line to, in a direct line to, as the crow flies, in a straight line to, in a bee line for, in a direct line for, in a straight line for, in a bee line with, in a direct line with, in a straight line with; in a line with; full tilt at, as the crow flies. |
Insanity | Screw loose, tile loose, slate loose; bee in one's bonnet, rats in the upper story. |
Sociality | Social circle, family circle; circle of acquaintance, coterie, society, company. social gathering, social reunion; assembly; (assemblage); barbecue, bee; corn-husking, corn-shucking; house raising, barn raising; husking, husking-bee; infare. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | To the bee mobile (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) I got stung by a bee. (Happy Campers; writing credit: Daniel Waters) The little bee told him everything (Gladiator; writing credit: David Franzoni) No good, sir. It seems he already sold his soul once in 1977 for Bee Gees tickets and then again in 1983 for half a mallomar (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás) I don't think you should hit that bee hive (Titus; writing credit: Karl-Heinz Käfer) | |
Lyrics | He was busy as a busy bee. (Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy; performing artist: Bette Midler) LIFE'S A BEE WITHOUT A BUZZ (That's Good; performing artist: Devo) 'cos I will be your honey bee (Sledgehammer; performing artist: Peter Gabriel) Queen Spelling Bee she nailed me (The Scorpion Lament; performing artist: The Roches) Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet (Birdhouse in Your Soul; performing artist: They Might Be Giants) | |
Clever | It is not how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised; the mosquito is swatted. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | The fuzzy bee buzzed the buzzy busy beehive. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973) Queen Bee Strikes Again (1971) Bugged by a Bee (1969) Queenie Bee (1967) Bee Bopped (1959) | |
Song Titles | Eric the Half A Bee Song (performing artist: Monty Python) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Entomologist Steve Sheppard prepares an agarose gel to be used in separating honey bee DNA fragments. Photo by Scott Bauer. Credit: USDA ARS News. |  | This bee, Osmia ribifloris (on a barberry flower), is an effective pollinator of commercial blueberries and is one of several relatives of the blue orchard bee, Osmia lignaria. Similar in appearance, the blue orchard bee is also a successful commercial pollinator that is now being evaluated for use in a wider range of crops. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Jack Dykinga.. |
 | A mustached mud bee, Anthophora abrupta. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | Visible as a dark, oval shape, an adult female varroa mite feeds on the midsection of a developing worker bee. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
 | A family of varroa mites found at the bottom of a honey bee brood cell. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | A blue orchard bee pollinates a zinnia. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
 | Bee plant (Cleome lutea) in the Mikey Basin Area of the Alvord Desert in Southeastern Oregon. Credit: Mark Armstrong. |  | ROAR on Saturday tour, kicked off the Multi-Cultural Tourism Program to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month and National Indian Recognition Week. Program leaders of the Rediscover Our American Roots discuss the summit activities at the Bumble Bee Ranch. Credit: Unknown. |
 | Bee gathering pollen on flowers in the high Steens WSA. (WSA 2-85F). Credit: Scott Moore. |  | Medium shot Sweat Bee. Credit: John Craig. |
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| "Bee" by {{- Ruben -}} Commentary: "Closeup of a bee in flight." | "Bee on sunflower" by Dominik Daniluk Commentary: "Bee on sunflower." |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Buzzing bee. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
John Burroughs | I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey. |
Martial | The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. |
Oliver Goldsmith | Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | And I trod on a Bee. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | A bee flew into the cab and buzzed in back of the windshield |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Allergenic extracts are used for the diagnosis and treatment of allergic diseases such as allergic rhinitis ("hay fever"), allergic sinusitis, allergic conjunctivitis, bee venom allergy and food allergy. (references) | |
Economic History | South Africa | In other cases, like the tender for the third cellular license, having a BEE plan and partner was mandatory. (references) |
South Africa | The reason the SAG gave for the move was that not enough had been done to support Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) at ACSA. (references) | |
South Africa | In large-scale infrastructure projects, like the Maputo Corridor, BEE objectives were evident in requirements mandating the use of small and medium subcontractors. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers -- particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's wives. Lead is also of great service as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate the wrong way. An interesting fact in the chemistry of international controversy is that at the point of contact of two patriotisms lead is precipitated in great quantities. Hail, holy Lead! -- of human feuds the great And universal arbiter; endowed With penetration to pierce any cloud Fogging the field of controversial hate, And with a sift, inevitable, straight, Searching precision find the unavowed But vital point. Thy judgment, when allowed By the chirurgeon, settles the debate. O useful metal! -- were it not for thee We'd grapple one another's ears alway: But when we hear thee buzzing like a bee We, like old Muhlenberg, "care not to stay." And when the quick have run away like pellets Jack Satan smelts the dead to make new bullets. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | When our forces marched into Germany they came not to prey on a brave and defeated people, but to nurture the seeds of democracy among those who yearned to bee free again. |
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| "Bee" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.32% of the time. "Bee" is used about 522 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.32% | 508 | 11,908 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.49% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.19% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 522 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "bee" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bee | First name Female | 1,000 | 3,908 |
| Bee | Last name | 1,000 | 8,222 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Bee" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a voyager", "a traveler", "blessed". | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "bee". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Beowulf | Male | Anglo-Saxon Mythology | A bee |
| Beowulf | Male | Anglo-Saxon Mythology | A bee wolf |
| Dabareh | N/A | Biblical | A bee |
| Deborah | N/A | Biblical | A bee |
| Deb | N/A | English | A bee |
| Debbi | N/A | English | A bee |
| Debbie | N/A | English | A bee |
| Debby | N/A | English | A bee |
| Debora | N/A | English | A bee |
| Debra | N/A | English | A bee |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| The following table summarizes names related to "Bee." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Beatriu | Female | Catalan | Beatrix |
| Bea | Female | English | Beatrix |
| Beatrice | Female | English | Beatrix |
| Beatrix | Female | English | N/A |
| Bee | Female | English | Beatrix |
| Trix | Female | English | Beatrix |
| Trixie | Female | English | Beatrix |
| Béatrice | Female | French | Beatrix |
| Beata | Female | German | Beatrix |
| Beatrix | Female | German | N/A |
| Beatrice | Female | Italian | Beatrix |
| Beata | Female | Polish | Beatrix |
| Beatriz | Female | Portuguese | Beatrix |
| Beata | Female | Scandinavian | Beatrix |
| Beatriz | Female | Spanish | Beatrix |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
1. Bee, NE (village, FIPS 3600) 2. Bee, VA |
Expressions using "bee": a bee in his bonnet ♦ a bee in one's bonnet ♦ africanized bee ♦ africanized honey bee ♦ alkali bee ♦ bee balm ♦ Bee beetle ♦ bee bird ♦ bee block ♦ bee blocks ♦ bee Branch ♦ bee Cave ♦ bee County ♦ bee culture ♦ bee eater ♦ Bee flower ♦ Bee fly ♦ bee garden ♦ bee glue ♦ Bee hawk ♦ bee House ♦ bee in his bonnet ♦ bee in one's bonnet ♦ bee keeping ♦ Bee killer ♦ bee kite ♦ Bee larkspur ♦ bee line ♦ Bee louse ♦ bee martin ♦ bee master ♦ bee moth ♦ Bee nettle ♦ bee orchid ♦ bee orchis ♦ bee queen ♦ bee Ridge ♦ bee Spring ♦ bee sting ♦ Bee Venoms ♦ Bee wolf ♦ black bee ♦ bumble bee ♦ busy as a bee ♦ busy bee ♦ Carniolan bee ♦ Carpenter bee ♦ Cuckoo bee ♦ Dog bee ♦ Drone bee ♦ german bee ♦ have a bee in one's bonnet ♦ Hive bee ♦ Horned bee ♦ husking bee ♦ italian bee ♦ killer bee ♦ mason bee ♦ Mc Bee ♦ mining bee ♦ mother bee ♦ poppy bee ♦ potter bee ♦ queen bee ♦ quilting bee ♦ raising bee ♦ Rocky Mountain bee plant ♦ Scarn bee ♦ sea bee ♦ solitary bee ♦ spelling bee ♦ To have a bee in the bonnet ♦ To have a bee in the head ♦ upholsterer bee ♦ wild bee ♦ worker bee. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bee": bee-bee-bee-bee-beep, Bee-eater, bee-eaters, bee-encrusted, bee-field, bee-flower, Bee-gees, bee-hive, bee-hived, bee-hives, bee-humming, bee-hunting, bee-in-his, bee-keeper, bee-keepers, bee-keeping, bee-killing, bee-lass, bee-like, bee-line, bee-ootiful, bee-orchids, bee-orientated, bee-pollinated, bee-skeps, bee-sting, bee-stings, bee-stung, bee-tree. | |
Ending with "bee": bumble-bee. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
sacramento bee | 5,158 | danville register bee | 244 |
bee | 3,675 | bee picture | 203 |
modesto bee | 3,536 | the secret life of bee | 175 |
bee gees | 3,136 | national spelling bee | 167 |
fresno bee | 2,343 | wendy bee | 167 |
bumble bee | 1,019 | bee balm | 153 |
burts bee | 977 | bee propolis | 150 |
bee pollen | 909 | queen bee | 148 |
carpenter bee | 865 | bee clipart | 144 |
honey bee | 851 | apple bee | 127 |
bee sting | 673 | flight of the bumble bee | 120 |
bee keeping | 499 | bee keeper | 118 |
bee wax | 449 | sacramento bee classifieds | 115 |
tumble bee | 377 | gee bee | 108 |
bee wax candle | 319 | bee hives | 105 |
kay bee toy | 313 | cartoon bee | 103 |
spelling bee | 313 | sacramento bee newspaper | 103 |
sac bee | 288 | baby bee | 99 |
killer bee | 270 | sacramento bee classified | 89 |
the bee gees lyrics | 252 | bee wood | 88 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "bee"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | bletë (apis, honeybee). (various references) | |
Arabic | مسابقة تهجئة, نحلة (melissa), إجتماع للعمل. (various references) | |
Asturian | abeya. (various references) | |
Aymara | huayronqo. (various references) | |
Basque | erle. (various references) | |
Bemba | inshimu. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | naamóó. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | трудолюбив човек, пчела. (various references) | |
Cebuano | buyog. (various references) | |
Chamorro | abeha. (various references) | |
Chinese | 蜂 (luxuriant, wasp). (various references) | |
Cornish | gwenenen. (various references) | |
Czech | včela, vèela. (various references) | |
Danish | bi (biochemical oxygen demand, Burundi, Republic of Burundi). (various references) | |
Dutch | bijen..., bije..., bij (at, beside, by, in, to, toward, towards, with), bý (an, at, at the rate of, beside, by, by means of, during, for, near, near to, nearby, next to, on, per, through, to, toward, towards, whereas, while, whilst, with), honingbij (bees, hive bee, honey bee), honingbý. (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | miqui chuspi. (various references) | |
Esperanto | abelo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | býfluga. (various references) | |
Farsi | مگس انگبین , زنبورعسل (Bumblebee), زنبور. (various references) | |
Finnish | mehiläinen (hive bee, honey bee). (various references) | |
French | abeille. (various references) | |
Frisian | bij. (various references) | |
German | biene (bird, chick, cootie), wettbewerb (competition, contest, match). (various references) | |
Greek | μέλισσα (bumble bee). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | bletë. (various references) | |
Hebrew | דבורה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | méh (honey-bee, uterine, uterus, womb). (various references) | |
Icelandic | býfluga. (various references) | |
Indonesian | lebah. (various references) | |
Inuktitut | igutaq. (various references) | |
Irish | beach. (various references) | |
Italian | ape. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 蜜蜂 , 蜂 , ヒンディー語 (beach, beach coat, beach house, beach parasol, beach umbrella, beach volleyball, beach wear, beacon, beads, beagle, beaker, beam, beam antenna, beam rider, beast, beat, beat generation, Beatles, beaver, beef, beefalo, beefsteak, beep, beer, beet, Hindi, Hindustan, hint, Venus, virus, viva). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ビー , みつばち, はち (a basin, a bowl, a brainpan, a crown, a flowerpot, a pot, eight). (various references) | |
Kongo | ngiumbula. (various references) | |
Korean | 꿀벌 (honeybee, honeybees). (various references) | |
Macedonian | pcela. (various references) | |
Manx | shellan. (various references) | |
Maori | pii (chicken, pea). (various references) | |
Norwegian | bie. (various references) | |
Occitan | abelha. (various references) | |
Papiamen | bei. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eebay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | abelha (apis). (various references) | |
Provencal | abelha. (various references) | |
Romanian | apicol (apiarian), albinã (honey-bee). (various references) | |
Romansch | avieul. (various references) | |
Romany | berorì. (various references) | |
Ruanda | uruyuki. (various references) | |
Russian | пчела пчелиный, пчела (apis, honeybee), помощь соседям. (various references) | |
Samoan | pi (peas). (various references) | |
Scottish | beach (a bee), seillean (a bee). (various references) | |
Sepedi | nose. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pčela. (various references) | |
Shona | zingizi (carpenter bee), simai renyuchi (queen bee), nyuchi (honey bee), donganyuchi (drone bee). (various references) | |
Spanish | abeja (drone). (various references) | |
Sranan | oni (honey). (various references) | |
Swahili | nyuki. (various references) | |
Swazi | í-nyôsi. (various references) | |
Swedish | bi (at, beside, by, honeybee, near, near to, nearby, next to). (various references) | |
Thai | ผึ้ง. (various references) | |
Turkish | balarisi, b harfi, yardımlaşma, toplanma (accumulation, agglomeration, aggregation, assemblage, build up, collection, coming together, concentration, concourse, congregation, congress, convention, gathering, getting together, grouping, muster, rally, rallying, reunion, rush), takıntı (hangup, hobbyhorse, idee fixe, obsession), sabit fikir (crank, fixed idea, hobbyhorse, idee fixe, monomania, obsession), gün (day, sun), ari (aryan, clean, pure), arı gibi çalışan kimse (grub), arı (clean, pure, wasp). (various references) | |
Turkmen | ary. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | спільна робота, бджола (apis), допомога сусідам. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | xin lải nhải. (various references) | |
Welsh | gwenynen. (various references) | |
Yucatec | kaab (honey). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | apes, api, apis, apium. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Isaiah Chapter 7, Verse 18 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai estai en th hmera ekeinh suriei kurioV muiaiV o kurieuei merouV potamou aiguptou kai th melissh h estin en cwra assuriwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et erit in die illa sibilabit Dominus muscae quae est in extremo fluminum Aegypti et api quae est in terra Assur |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And it shal be, in that day the Lord shal whistle to the fleye, that is in the vtmostes of the flodus of Egipt; and to the bee, that is in the lond of Assur; |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD will hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And it will be in that day that the Lord will make a piping sound for the fly which is in the end of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of Assyria. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Isaiah Chapter 7, Verse 18 |
| Cebuano | Ug nahitabo niadtong adlawa nga sitsitan ni Jehova ang langaw nga anaa sa kinatumyang dapit sa mga suba sa Egipto, ug ang putyokan nga anaa sa yuta sa Asiria. |
| Croatian | U dan onaj zazviždat æe Jahve muhama na ušæu egipatskih rijeka i pèelama u zemlji asirskoj |
| Danish | På hin Dag skal HERREN fløjte ad Fluerne ved Udløbet af Ægyptens Strømme og ad Bierne i Assyrien; |
| Dutch | Want het zal te dien dage geschieden, dat de HEERE zal toesissen de vliegen, die aan het einde der rivieren van Egypte zijn, en de bijen die in het land van Assur zijn. |
| Finnish | Ja sinä päivänä Herra viheltää kärpäset Egyptin virtain suulta ja mehiläiset Assurin maasta, |
| French | En ce jour-là, l`Éternel sifflera les mouches Qui sont à l`extrémité des canaux de l`Égypte, Et les abeilles qui sont au pays d`Assyrie; |
| German | Denn zu der Zeit wird der HERR zischen der Fliege am Ende der Wasser in Ägypten und der Biene im Lande Assur, |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Pada masa itu TUHAN akan memanggil orang Mesir dan orang Asyur, lalu kedua bangsa itu datang seperti kawanan lalat dan lebah yang mengerumuni lembah-lembah terjal dan celah-celah batu karang. Mereka akan menutupi setiap semak berduri dan setiap tempat berumput. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Karena pada hari itu juga akan jadi, bahwa diterbangkan Tuhan ke mari dan segala lalat yang di tepi sungai Mesir dan segala lebah yang di tanah Asyur; |
| Italian | Avverrà in quel giorno: il Signore farà un fischio alle mosche che sono all'estremità dei canali di Egitto e alle api che si trovano in Assiria. |
| Maori | Na i taua ra ka whiowhio a Ihowa ki te ngaro i te wahi whakamutunga mai o nga awa o Ihipa, ki te pi ano hoki i te whenua o Ahiria. |
| Norwegian | På den tid skal Herren pipe til fluen lengst borte ved Egyptens strømmer og til bien i Assurs land; |
| Portuguese | Naquele dia assobiará o Senhor às moscas que há no extremo dos rios do Egito, e às abelhas que estão na terra da Assíria. |
| Rumanian | Kn ziua aceea, Domnul va wuiera muwtelor, dela capqtul rkurilor Egiptului, wi albinelor din yara Asiriei; |
| Spanish | Acontecerá en aquel día que Jehovah silbará a la mosca que está en el extremo de los ríos de Egipto y a la abeja que está en la tierra de Asiria. |
| Swedish | Ty på den tiden skall HERREN locka på flugorna längst borta vid Egyptens strömmar och på bisvärmarna i Assyriens land; |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bee": beebee, beebees, beebread, beebreads, beech, beechdrops, beechen, beeches, beechier, beechiest, beechnut, beechnuts, beechy, beef, beefalo, beefaloes, beefalos, beefcake, beefcakes, beefeater, beefeaters, beefed, beefier, beefiest, beefily, beefing, beefless, beefs, beefsteak, beefsteaks, beefwood, beefwoods, beefy, beehive, beehives, beekeeper, beekeepers, beekeeping, beekeepings, beelike, beeline, beelined, beelines, beelining, been, beep, beeped, beeper, beepers, beeping, beeps. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "bee": baubee, bawbee, beebee, bribee, bumblebee, flambee, freebee, frisbee, honeybee, tullibee. (additional references) | |
Words containing "bee": ambeer, ambeers, baubees, bawbees, bebeeru, bebeerus, bribees, bumblebees, flambeed, freebees, frisbees, hartebeest, hartebeests, honeybees, peebeen, peebeens, shebeen, shebeens, tullibees, wildebeest, wildebeests. (additional references) | |
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"Bee" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bae, baec, baeej, bce, bea, beay, bec, Becej, beeb, beec, beed, beeem, beeg, beek, beel, beem, beev, beew, beey, beez, bef, bege, beh, bei, bej, bejel, bek, beke, bele, bem, beme, Bemei, bemel, beo, bep, bepe, beq, beu, beue, bev, beve, bevee, bew, Bex, bexe, beye, bez, Beze, bezem, bfe, bhe, bie, biem, bije, biqe, blee, boe, boea, boeh, bofe, Bpeo, bqe, bre, bree, bse, bue, Bueb, bwe, Bwea, byee, Byeee, byj, Byk, byl, bym, byv, Byw, eba, ebe, ebec, ebee, ebel, ebex, Ebi, Ebie, ebke, ebo, Eboe, ebu, eeb, ibee, iby, iee, Lby, mbe, Nby, obee, sbee, uee. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bee" (pronounced bē") |
| 2 | b ē" | Ab, be. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e" | |
-1 letter: be. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-e" | |
+1 letter: beef, been, beep, beer, bees, beet, bene, bree, hebe. | |
+2 letters: abele, bedel, bedew, beech, beefs, beefy, beeps, beers, beery, beets, beget, beige, belie, belle, benes, benne, beret, berme, beset, betel, bevel, bezel, bleed, bleep, brede, breed, brees, breve, celeb, debye, dweeb, ebbed, ebbet, embed, ember, glebe, grebe, hebes, jebel, leben, obese, plebe, rebbe, rebec, rebel, thebe, weber, xebec, zebec. | |
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