Bee vs Parasite - What's the difference?
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A flying insect, of the superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies and for collecting pollen and producing wax and honey.
*1499 , (John Skelton), The Bowge of Courte :
*:His face was belymmed as byes had him stounge.
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.12:
*, II.12:
*:Can there be a more formall, and better ordered policie, divided into so severall charges and offices, more constantly entertained, and better maintained, than that of Bees ?
*2012 , ‘Subtle poison’, The Economist , 31 March:
*:Bees pollinate many of the world’s crops—a service estimated to be worth $15 billion a year in America alone.
A contest, especially for spelling; see spelling bee.
A gathering for a specific purpose, e.g. a sewing bee or a quilting bee.
* S. G. Goodrich
* 2011 , Tim Blanning, "The reinvention of the night", Times Literary Supplement , 21 Sep 2011:
(obsolete) A ring or torque; a bracelet.
* 1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book VII:
* 1658 , Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial , Penguin 2005, page 16:
* 1604 Reverend Cawdrey Table Aleph
(obsolete) ; been
Any of the pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through.
(pejorative) A person who lives on other people's efforts or expense and gives little or nothing back.
(biology) an organism that lives on or in another organism, deriving benefit from living on or in that other organism, while not contributing towards that other organism sufficiently to cover the cost to that other organism.
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(literary, poetic) A climbing plant which is supported by a wall, trellis etc.
* 1813 , (Percy Bysshe Shelley), Queen Mab , I:
As nouns the difference between bee and parasite
is that bee is while parasite is (pejorative) a person who lives on other people's efforts or expense and gives little or nothing back.bee
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bee, from (etyl) ).Noun
(s)- An angry Wasp th'one in a viall had, / Th'other in hers an hony-laden Bee .
Derived terms
* bee-eater * beekeeper * beehive * beehouse * beeline * beeswax * bee's knees * bumblebee * honeybee * carpenter bee * have a bee in your bonnet * put the bee on * queen bee * stingless bee * sting like a bee * worker beeSynonyms
*See also
* apian * apiarian * apiarist * apiary * apimania * * * drone * dumbledore * hornet * honey * imbe * pollinator * waspEtymology 2
Possibly from dialectal (etyl) bene, been, .Noun
(en noun)- geography bee
- The cellar was dug by a bee in a single day.
- Particularly resistant, for example, in many parts of northern Europe was the “spinning bee ”, a nocturnal gathering of women to exchange gossip, stories, refreshment and – crucially – light and heat, as they spun wool or flax, knitted or sewed.
Etymology 3
(Northern development of) (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- And Kynge Arthure gaff hir a ryche bye of golde; and so she departed.
- ...restoring unto the world much gold richly adorning his Sword, two hundred Rubies, many hundred Imperial Coynes, three hundred golden Bees , the bones and horseshoe of his horse enterred with him...
Etymology 4
Variant spellings.Verb
(head)- held that a ‘Nicholaitan is an heretike, like Nicholas, who held that wiues should bee common to all alike.’
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Etymology 5
See also
*Etymology 6
Probably from an (etyl) word meaning "ring". See bow.Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* bee blockparasite
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(wikipedia parasite)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite . This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.}}
- ''Lice, fleas, ticks and mites are widely spread parasites .
- Her golden tresses shade / The bosom’s stainless pride, / Curling like tendrils of the parasite / Around a marble column.