CUCKOO-BUMBLEBEE

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Meaning:

A bee that is parasitic in the nests of bumblebees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("cuckoo-bumblebee" is a kind of...):

bee (any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species)

Holonyms ("cuckoo-bumblebee" is a member of...):

genus Psithyrus; Psithyrus (a large bee that resembles the bumblebee but lacks pollen-collecting apparatus and a worker caste)