killer bee
1. an investment banker who devises strategies to make a target company less attractive for takeover • Hypernyms: investment banker, underwriter 2. a strain of bees that originated in Brazil in the 1950s as a cross between an aggressive African bee and a honeybee; retains most of the traits of the African bee; now spread as far north as Texas • Syn: Africanized bee, Africanized honey bee, Apis mellifera scutellata, Apis mellifera adansonii • Hypernyms: honeybee, Apis mellifera
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