Humblebee

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A bumblebee. obsolete

    "The Fox, the Ape, and the Humble-Bee, Were ſtill at oddes being but three."

  2. 2
    robust hairy social bee of temperate regions wordnet

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"The Fox, the Ape, and the Humble-Bee, Were ſtill at oddes being but three."

Etymology

From Middle English humbul-be, humbulbe, hombul-be, from *humbul (“bumblebee”) + be (“bee”). See also West Frisian hommel (“bumblebee”), Dutch hommel (“bumblebee”), German Low German Hummel (“bumblebee”), German Hummel (“bumblebee”), Swedish humla (“bumblebee”), Norwegian humle (“bumblebee”); also cognate with Dutch hommelbij (“bumblebee”), Danish humlebi (“bumblebee”). Compare also English humble (“to hum”).

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