apis mellifera

1. 1.

   social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces

   Synonymshoneybee

   Broaderbee

   NarrowerAfricanized beeblack beeCarniolan beeItalian bee

   Part ofApis

Questions about apis mellifera

What does apis mellifera mean?

apis mellifera means "social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces".

What is another word for apis mellifera?

Close synonyms include honeybee. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is apis mellifera a common word?

apis mellifera is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.