Halictus

noun

Ha·​lic·​tus

həˈliktəs

: a cosmopolitan genus of gregarious but not social burrowing bees that provision the larval cells with pollen and nectar and include important pollinators of economic plants see sweat bee

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, irregular from Greek halizein to gather, assemble, from halēs assembled, pressed together

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