Usually means: Wood-boring, solitary bee species.
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  1. carpenter bee: Merriam-Webster
  2. carpenter bee: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. carpenter bee: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. carpenter bee: Collins English Dictionary
  5. carpenter bee: Vocabulary.com
  6. carpenter bee: Wordnik
  7. carpenter bee: Wiktionary
  8. carpenter bee: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. carpenter bee: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Carpenter bee, carpenter bee: Dictionary.com
  11. Carpenter bee: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. carpenter bee: Rhymezone
  13. carpenter bee: FreeDictionary.org
  14. carpenter bee: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. carpenter bee: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (carpenter bee)

▸ noun:  A bee of the subfamily Xylocopinae, that burrows in dead wood.

Similar:
carpenter, carpenter ant, violet carpenter bee, ceratinine, carpenterworm, carder bee, carpintero, common carder bee, leaf-cutter bee, resin bee, more...

Opposite:
mason bee, leafcutter bee, mining bee

Phrases:
Eastern carpenter bee, more...

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Similar:
carpenter, carpenter ant, violet carpenter bee, ceratinine, carpenterworm, carder bee, carpintero, common carder bee, leaf-cutter bee, resin bee, more...

Opposite:
mason bee, leafcutter bee, mining bee

Phrases:
Eastern carpenter bee, more...



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