Other forms: bees
A bee is a yellow-and-black insect that makes honey. A bee sting, a swarm of bees, busy as a bee.
Honeybees communicate the direction and distance of food by dancing, which is one of the strangest facts in biology. Most of the world's bee species are solitary and make no honey at all. A honeybee dies after stinging because the sting tears free. Note that the word is Old English and unchanged.
1nounbeeA flying insect that makes honey and pollinates flowers.
“The bees buzzed around the lavender in the garden all afternoon.”
bee is an insect.
Old English beo comes from a Proto-Indo-European word for the insect. The word is very old and widespread.
Middle English
be
English, today
bee
Built from
From Middle English be. From Middle English be, bee, beo, bey, from Old English bēo, bīo (“bee”), from Proto-West Germanic bijā, from Proto-Germanic bijǭ (“bee”), from Proto-Indo-European bʰey- (“bee”). 2
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA