family halictidae

English Thesaurus

1. a family of small solitary bees; many are valuable pollinators for agriculture (noun.animal)

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

member holonym	:	genus nomia, nomia,
definition	:	a genus of bee; some are important pollinators of legumes (noun.animal)

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