africanized bee

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africanized bee - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Africanized bee
      n 1: 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 [syn: Africanized bee, Africanized honey bee
           , killer bee, Apis mellifera scutellata,
           Apis mellifera adansonii]