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drone
has definitions from the fields of zoology,music,transportation,rhetoric,work
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[ noun ] (zoology) stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen
Used in print (B. J. D. Meeuse, The Story of Pollination....)Simultaneously , males or drones are produced , mostly from the unfertilized eggs of workers , although a few may be produced by the queen . The young queens and drones leave the nest and mate , and after a short period of freedom , the fertilized young queens will begin to dig in for the winter . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (rhetoric) an unchanging intonation
Used in print (Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)The lazy sing-song was spaced in time like the drone of a bumble-bee . Related terms |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 25660
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[ noun ] (transportation) an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control
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[ noun ] (music) a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone
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