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Detailed Synonyms for Africanized honey bee in English
Africanized honey bee:
Africanized honey bee [the ~] noun
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the Africanized honey bee
– a strain of bees that originated in Brazil in the 1950s as a cross between an aggressive African bee and a honeybee; retains most of the traits of the African bee; now spread as far north as Texas 1the Africanized bee; the Africanized honey bee; the Apis mellifera adansonii; the Apis mellifera scutellata; the killer bee– a strain of bees that originated in Brazil in the 1950s as a cross between an aggressive African bee and a honeybee; retains most of the traits of the African bee; now spread as far north as Texas 1