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Definition 2024

worker_bee

worker bee

English

Noun

worker bee ‎(plural worker bees)

A sterile bee whose speciality is to support the hive, especially by collecting pollen

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:worker bee.

Translations

sterile bee

Catalan: abella obrera f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 工蜂 (zh) ‎(gōngfēng)
Danish: arbejdsbi c, arbejderbi c
Dutch: werkster (nl) f, werkbij f
Finnish: työläinen (fi)
French: abeille ouvrière f
German: Arbeiterin (de) f
Irish: beach oibre f

Japanese: 働きバチ ‎(hatarakibachi), 働き蜂 ‎(はたらきばち, hatarakibachi)
Polish: pracownica (pl) f
Portuguese: abelha-operária f
Russian: рабо́чая пчела́ f ‎(rabóčaja pčelá)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: ра́дилица f

Roman: rádilica (sh) f
Spanish: abeja obrera f