humblebee

1. (obsolete) A bumblebee.Examples: "The Fox, the Ape, and the Humble-Bee, Were ſtill at oddes being but three."; "1800's, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Humblebee Burly, dozing humblebee, Where thou art is clime for me."; "Hence I have very little doubt, that if the whole genus of humble-bees became extinct or very rare in England, the heartsease and red clover would become very rare, or wholly disappear."obsolete