beeling

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English

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Etymology

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From bee +‎ -ling.

Noun

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beeling (plural beelings)

  1. 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.

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