psithyrus

English Thesaurus

1. a large bee that resembles the bumblebee but lacks pollen-collecting apparatus and a worker caste (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	arthropod genus,
definition	:	a genus of arthropods (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	cuckoo-bumblebee,
definition	:	a bee that is parasitic in the nests of bumblebees (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	apidae, family apidae,
definition	:	honeybees; carpenter bees; bumblebees (noun.animal)