mining bee

1. 1.

   a bee that is a member of the genus Andrena

   Synonymsandrenaandrenid

   Broaderbee

   Part ofgenus Andrena

Questions about mining bee

What does mining bee mean?

mining bee means "a bee that is a member of the genus Andrena".

What is another word for mining bee?

Close synonyms include andrena, andrenid. 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 mining bee a common word?

mining 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.