Africanized honey bee
n 1: 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}, {killer bee}, {Apis mellifera scutellata},
{Apis mellifera adansonii}]