poppy bee

English

Noun

poppy bee (plural poppy bees)

  1. A leaf-cutting bee (Hoplitis papaveris) which uses pieces cut from poppy petals for the lining of its cells.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for poppy bee in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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