Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bee violet

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.65 in modern English

Syllables: bee vi-o-let
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A color visible to bees that has a frequency of about 400 mμ, spanning a portion of the spectrum that covers violet blue through the lower frequencies of the ultraviolet range.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Karl von Frisch discovered that honey bees can see six colors—blue, blue-green, yellow, bee purple, ultraviolet, and bee violet."
"To a bee, it is a carelessly formed, perhaps Impressionistic world in which movement carries great meaning and in which the richness of color is extended to endow two flowers, each an insipid white to us, with radically different shades of "bee-violet.""

Usage

Inflected Forms

bee violets (plural)

Phrases

bee purple

Frequently Paired Words

bee purple

Questions

What does bee violet mean?: A color visible to bees that has a frequency of about 400 mμ, spanning a portion of the spectrum that covers violet blue through the lower frequencies of the ultraviolet range.

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