WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
kill′er bee′, 
  1. Insectsa honeybee, Apis mellifera adansonii, native to Africa, that is extremely aggressive and attacks in swarms when disturbed: brought to Brazil and accidentally released there in 1956.
  2. Insectsan American hybrid of the African and European honeybees produced by the mingling of domesticated European colonies with an expanding and migrating African colony that escaped from an apiary in Brazil.
  • 1975

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
killer bee n
  1. an African honeybee, or one of its hybrids originating in Brazil, that is extremely aggressive when disturbed
'killer bee' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
African honeybee - Africanized honeybee - bee killer

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