Humblebee - What does it mean?
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(obsolete) A bumblebee.
* 1595 or 1596,
* 1800's, , The Humblebee
* 1859,
humblebee
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* humble-beeNoun
(en noun)- ''The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee ,
- Were still at odds, being but three.''
- ''Burly, dozing humblebee ,
- Where thou art is clime for me.''
- Hence I have very little doubt, that if the whole genus of humble-bees became extinct or very rare in England, the heartsease and red clover would become very rare, or wholly disappear.