carpenter bee

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   large solitary bee that lays eggs in tunnels bored into wood or plant stems

   Broaderbee

   Part ofXylocopa

Questions about carpenter bee

What does carpenter bee mean?

carpenter bee means "large solitary bee that lays eggs in tunnels bored into wood or plant stems".

Is carpenter bee a common word?

carpenter bee 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.