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| bee [ bee ] (plural bees) |
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1. honey-making insect: a flying insect with a furry body that makes a buzzing sound as it flies. Some species of bees have stingers, and some live in hives and produce honey. Superfamily Apoidea.
See also bumblebeehoneybee
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2. gathering for activity and socializing: a gathering at which people combine work or a friendly competition with socializing
  a sewing bee
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| [ Old English bēo< Germanic] |
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have a bee in your bonnet about something to be so interested in or concerned about something that you rarely stop thinking or talking about it
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