genus psithyrus

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   a large bee that resembles the bumblebee but lacks pollen-collecting apparatus and a worker caste

   SynonymsPsithyrus

   Broaderarthropod genus

   Part ofApidae

Questions about genus psithyrus

What does genus psithyrus mean?

genus psithyrus means "a large bee that resembles the bumblebee but lacks pollen-collecting apparatus and a worker caste".

What is another word for genus psithyrus?

Close synonyms include Psithyrus. 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 genus psithyrus a common word?

genus psithyrus 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.