Word Meanings - BUMBLEBEE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A large bee of the genus Bombus, sometimes called humblebee; -- so named from its sound. Note: There are many species. All gather honey, and store it in the empty cocoons after the young have come out.

Related words: (words related to BUMBLEBEE)

• YOUNGISH
  Somewhat young. Tatler.
• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• CALLOSUM
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• AFTERCAST
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
• NAMELESSLY
  In a nameless manner.
• HONEYED
  1. Covered with honey. 2. Sweet, as, honeyed words. Milton.
• NAMABLE
  Capable of being named.
• YOUNGLY
  Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak.
• AFTER
  To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts
• THEREAGAIN
  In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• HONEYWORT
  A European plant of the genus Cerinthe, whose flowers are very attractive to bees. Loudon.
• THERETO
  1. To that or this. Chaucer. 2. Besides; moreover. Spenser. Her mouth full small, and thereto soft and red. Chaucer.
• HONEYSUCKLE
  One of several species of flowering plants, much admired for their beauty, and some for their fragrance. Note: The honeysuckles are properly species of the genus Lonicera; as, L. Caprifolium, and L. Japonica, the commonly cultivated fragrant kinds;
• HONEY-TONGUED
  Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak.
• YOUNG
  , , AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva, juven. Junior, Juniper, 1. Not long born; still in the first part of
• THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• GYMNASTICALLY
  In a gymnastic manner.
• DYNAMO
  A dynamo-electric machine.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• UNEMPIRICALLY
  Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
• SCALLION
  A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• DYNAMOMETRY
  The art or process of measuring forces doing work.
• UNIVOCALLY
  In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.
• PARABOLICALLY
  1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• STEREOGRAPHICALLY
  In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.