Carpenter vs Xylocopine - What's the difference?
carpenter | xylocopine |
A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.
(nautical) A senior rating in ships responsible for all the woodwork onboard; in the days of sail, a warrant officer responsible for the hull, masts, spars and boats of a ship, and whose responsibility was to sound the well to see if the ship was making water.
A two-wheeled carriage
(bees) In the subfamily of carpenter bees.
*{{quote-journal, 2009, date=February 6, Elizabeth Pennisi, EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY: Agreeing to Disagree, Science
, passage=Wilson thinks today's eusocial species likely had ancestors similar to a Japanese stem-nesting xylocopine bee, Ceratina flavipes . Most of the time females make do on their own, but every once in a while, they pair up and divide the labor, setting the stage for a "group" to outdo individuals and for the tendency to form groups to be favored. }}
As a proper noun carpenter
is derived from the trade name carpenter.As an adjective xylocopine is
(bees) in the subfamily of carpenter bees.carpenter
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(wikipedia carpenter)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* joiner * chippyExternal links
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(wikipedia xylocopine) (Xylocopinae) (Xylocopinae)Adjective
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