GENUS ANDRENA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A solitary burrowing short-tongued bee

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Andrena" is a kind of...):

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "genus Andrena"):

andrena; andrenid; mining bee (a bee that is a member of the genus Andrena)

Holonyms ("genus Andrena" is a member of...):

Andrenidae; family Andrenidae (a large family of solitary short-tongued bees most of which burrow in the ground)

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