Bees, like wasps, have a stinger.
Source: tatoeba (7079790)
Stinger
//ˈstɪŋ.ɚ//
Synonyms for "stinger" (11 found)
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Closest matches (3)
Noun(2 words)
Strong matches (3)
Related words (5)
Noun(3 words)
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1 entriesderived
4 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas context
3 entriesis a
9 entriesrelated to
38 entriesShowing 16 of 38 words.
Translations
88 translations across 53 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- thumb noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- κέντρον noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Armenian
2 entries- խայթ noun (pointed portion of an insect)
- խայթոց noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- neştər noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Bashkir
1 entries- ҡаяу noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Belarusian
1 entries- джа́ла noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Bulgarian
1 entries- жи́ло noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Catalan
2 entries- agulló noun (pointed portion of an insect)
- fibló noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 刺 noun (pointed portion of an insect)
- 毒刺 noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Czech
1 entries- žihadlo noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Esperanto
1 entries- pikilo noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Finnish
1 entries- pistin noun (pointed portion of an insect)
French
2 entries- aiguillon noun (pointed portion of an insect)
- dard noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Galician
3 entries- aguillón noun (pointed portion of an insect)
- ferrete noun (pointed portion of an insect)
- ferrón noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Georgian
1 entries- ნესტარი noun (pointed portion of an insect)
German
1 entries- Stachel noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Greek
1 entries- κεντρί noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Greenlandic
1 entries- iguut noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Hebrew
1 entries- עוקץ noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Hungarian
1 entries- fullánk noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Icelandic
1 entries- broddur noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Ingrian
1 entries- neegla noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Italian
4 entries- aculeo noun (pointed portion of an insect)
- frecciata noun (anything that stings mentally or psychologically)
- provocazione noun (anything that stings mentally or psychologically)
- pungiglione noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Japanese
3 entries- いやみ noun (anything that stings mentally or psychologically)
- 毒針 noun (pointed portion of an insect)
- 針 noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Kalmyk
1 entries- хатхур noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Kayapó
1 entries- tey noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Kazakh
1 entries- шаншар noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Latin
1 entries- aculeus noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Latvian
1 entries- dzelonis noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Lithuanian
1 entries- geluonis noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Macedonian
2 entries- жило noun (pointed portion of an insect)
- осило noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Māori
1 entries- hoto noun (anything that stings mentally or psychologically)
Navajo
1 entries- azǫ́ǫ́z noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Norwegian
1 entries- brodd noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- آری دیكنی noun (pointed portion of an insect)
- ابره noun (pointed portion of an insect)
- ایكنه noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Persian
1 entries- نیش noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Polish
1 entries- żądło noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Portuguese
4 entries- aguilhão noun (pointed portion of an insect)
- ferrão noun (pointed portion of an insect)
- insulto noun (anything that stings mentally or psychologically)
- provocação noun (anything that stings mentally or psychologically)
Romanian
1 entries- ac noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Russian
2 entries- Стингер noun (portable surface-to-air missile)
- жа́ло noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- bocka noun (pointed portion of an insect)
- bodlja noun (pointed portion of an insect)
- bodlja noun (anything that stings mentally or psychologically)
- bodljika noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Slovak
1 entries- žihadlo noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Slovene
1 entries- želo noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Southern Altai
1 entries- чагак noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Spanish
2 entries- aguijón noun (pointed portion of an insect)
- lanceta noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Swedish
1 entries- gadd noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Tagalog
1 entries- asir noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Thai
1 entries- เหล็กใน noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Turkish
1 entries- iğne noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Ukrainian
1 entries- жа́ло noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Vietnamese
1 entries- ngòi noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Welsh
2 entries- atgno noun (anything that stings mentally or psychologically)
- colyn noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Yiddish
1 entries- שטאָך noun (pointed portion of an insect)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Bees have a barbed stinger that can be stuck in the victim of a sting, tearing the stinger loose from the bee's abdomen, which results in its death.
Source: tatoeba (8967774)
A scorpion has a stinger at the end of its tail.
Source: tatoeba (9361435)
A wasp stuck its stinger in my arm.
Source: tatoeba (9795594)
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