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

2 senses of killer bee

Sense 1
killer bee -- (an investment banker who devises strategies to make a target company less attractive for takeover)
       => investment banker, underwriter -- (a banker who deals chiefly in underwriting new securities)

Sense 2
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)