Definitions for queen bee

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

queen′ bee′(n.)

  1. a fertile female bee.

    Category: Entomology

  2. a woman who is in a favored or preeminent position.

    Category: Common Vocabulary, Sexuality

Origin of queen bee:

1600–10

Princeton's WordNet

  1. queen bee(noun)

    fertile egg-laying female bee

Wiktionary

  1. queen bee(Noun)

    A reproductive female (especially the only one) in a colony of bees.

  2. queen bee(Noun)

    The most important or dominant woman in an organisation or situation.


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