bees

n. type of flying insect; gathering for the purpose of carrying out a certain task (quilting bee, spelling bee, etc.)

BEE may refer to:Black Economic Empowerment, the policy of post-apartheid affirmative action in South AfricaBiblical Education by Extension, a Christian program designed to instruct theology in countries with weak theological infrastructure.Flybe airline
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Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants. Bees are a monophyletic lineage within the superfamily Apoidea, presently classified by the unranked taxon name Anthophila. There are slightly fewer than 20,000 known species of bee, in 9 recognized families, though many are undescribed and the actual number is probably higher. They are found on every continent except Antarctica, in every habitat on the planet that contains flowering dicotyledons.
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Noun
1. any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species
(hypernym) hymenopterous insect, hymenopteran, hymenopteron, hymenopter
(hyponym) drone
(member-holonym) Apoidea, superfamily Apoidea
2. a social gathering to carry out some communal task or to hold competitions
(hypernym) social gathering, social affair
(hyponym) quilting bee

adj. agape, open-mouthed

Bee(s) Greek and Roman writers, having in mind the terminology of the Mysteries, used the term bees (melissai) to denote both priestesses and women disciples. Thus it was used for the priestesses of Delphi and other Mysteries, and by the Neoplatonists for pure and chaste persons. Honey and nectar are symbols of wisdom.
Vergil says that bees have a portion of the divine mind, from which aethereal particles stream, and that divinity permeates the whole earth so that all beings draw from it the streams of life (Georgics 4, 320). The spiritual or monadic consciousness (the nous) manifests itself in innumerable ways, and this same consciousness is in man. A little later Vergil says that bees are born from the carcass of a slain bullock or bull. The bull or cow is a symbol of the moon, and the moon has always stood as a symbol of the psychic intelligence or lower human mind; thus the meaning is that out of his perfectly subordinated ("slain") bull -- the lunar body or psychic nature -- is born the "bee" of the disciple, the will and the urge to enter into the solar life or the spirit. In the Finnish mythology of the Kalevala, a bee is the messenger between this world and higher realms. In Scandinavian mythology bees again play an important part with the world tree (Yggdrasil).