andrenidae

English Thesaurus

1. a large family of solitary short-tongued bees most of which burrow in the ground (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	arthropod family,
definition	:	any of the arthropods (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	genus andrena,
definition	:	a solitary burrowing short-tongued bee (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	apoidea, superfamily apoidea,
definition	:	bees (noun.animal)