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SUPERFAMILY APOIDEA

Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Beesplay

Synonyms:

Apoidea; superfamily Apoidea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("superfamily Apoidea" is a kind of...):

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "superfamily Apoidea"):

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

queen bee (fertile egg-laying female bee)

worker bee (sterile bee specialized to collect food and maintain the hive)

Apidae; family Apidae (honeybees; carpenter bees; bumblebees)

Andrenidae; family Andrenidae (a large family of solitary short-tongued bees most of which burrow in the ground)

family Halictidae; Halictidae (a family of small solitary bees; many are valuable pollinators for agriculture)

family Megachilidae; Megachilidae (leaf-cutting and mason bees)

Holonyms ("superfamily Apoidea" is a member of...):

Hymenoptera; order Hymenoptera (an order of insects including: bees; wasps; ants; ichneumons; sawflies; gall wasps; etc.)

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