NOUN
- 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
How To Use Africanized honey bee In A Sentence
- In Brazil we work with the Africanized Honey Bee apis mellifera scutelata.
- Africanized honey bees - melodramatically labeled "killer bees" - are the result of honey bees brought from Africa to Brazil in the 1950s.
