Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun apis_mellifera_scutellata

1 sense of apis mellifera scutellata

Sense 1
Africanized bee, Africanized honey bee, killer bee, Apis mellifera scutellata, Apis mellifera adansonii -- (a strain of bees that originated in Brazil in the 1950s as a cross between an aggressive African bee and a honeybee; retains most of the traits of the African bee; now spread as far north as Texas)
       => honeybee, Apis mellifera -- (social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces)