worker bee

noun

worker bee

noun
1

A sterile bee whose specialty is to support the hive, especially by collecting pollen.

  • Then, a worker bee has got six thousand eyes of each side of its head so it can see the flowers that it wants to get the pollen and the nectar from.1991, Gene Stratton-Porter, The Keeper of the Bees, reprint edition, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 197:

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