[lojban] Re: bifce

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 05:14:00PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> {bifce} is glossed as "bee/wasp/hornet". "Bee" means any member of the
> superfamily Apoidea, "ant" means any member of the family Formicidae
> in the superfamily Vespoidea, and "wasp" means any member of Apocrita
> that isn't a bee or an ant (including the hornets, which are in
> Vespoidea). (I am ignoring spelling bees, WASPs, and any other senses
> that aren't Hymenoptera.) What words can we use to distinguish bees
> and any other bifce that might need distinguishing?

On the off chance I haven't previously made it obvious, I feel that I
have no actual skill with this sort of question, and am not deliberately
ignoring you.

-Robin

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