English noun: Africanized honey bee | |||
| 1. | Africanized honey bee (animal) 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 | ||
| Synonyms | Africanized bee, Apis mellifera adansonii, Apis mellifera scutellata, killer bee | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | Apis mellifera, honeybee | ||