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solitary bee
noun
- any of numerous bees, as the leaf-cutting bees, that do not live in a community.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of solitary bee1
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Example Sentences
Buzzing around me, as if seeking some companionship on that lonely bluff, was a solitary bee.
He once saw with delight "a solitary bee nipping a leaf round till it exactly fitted the front of a hole."
Their eyes fell, at the same moment, upon one solitary bee that was standing upon the inside of the flower-pot.
One kind of solitary bee, for example, builds in empty snail-shells, and another in small hollows like keyholes.
The cells are provisioned like those of any other solitary bee with pollen, etc., and the egg is laid upon it.
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