beeling
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
beeling (plural beelings)
- A small, young, or juvenile bee.
- 1906, Harper's magazine, volume 113, page 593:
- Herein must go an egg and food for the beeling that shall hatch therefrom.
- 1907, Henry Christopher McCook, Nature's craftsmen:
- [...] in which the pollen is gathered and carried to the cells to feed the hungry little larvae or beelings when they are hatched from the egg.