bees
- 1Plural of bee.
Thousands of bees swarmed around the hollow oak near the orchard.
The orchard depends on bees to pollinate its blossoms each spring.
Note
A regular plural: -s added with no change to the stem, serving every meaning of the singular alike. Neighbors hold quilting bees and sewing bees, schools run spelling bees, and spelling "bubble" aloud names three bees. Careful writers keep the word for the insects proper; calling wasps and other stinging insects bees is a loose, informal habit that usage guides frown on.
bees is a form of bee
bee, noun: A flying insect known for its organized societies, though only a minority of species have them, for collecting pollen, and, in some species, for producing wax and honey. Full entry
- Forms
- beebees plural
- Spelling
- bee → bees: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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