stingless

ˈstɪŋləs
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Translation of stingless into German

Adjective

1.

metaphorical

Rare
lacking a harmful or sharp quality
Rare
  • His stingless remarks did not offend anyone.Seine harmlos gemeinten Bemerkungen verletzten niemanden.
2.

insect

TECH.
having no sting or sharp organ
TECH.
stachellos
  • The stingless bees are safe to handle.Die stachellosen Bienen sind sicher zu handhaben.
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Synonyms and analogies of stingless in English

adj.gentleharmlessinnocuousMore synonyms

Examples of stingless in a sentence

  • The stingless criticism was easy to accept.
  • Stingless ants are common in this region.
  • The stingless wasps are harmless to humans.

Translations of "stingless" in Context ordered by category and frequency

stachellosen

It develops large blue-gray leaf rosettes with stingless, pointed leaves (up to 70 cm long).

Sie entwickelt große blau-graue Blattrosetten mit stachellosen, spitz zulaufenden Blättern (bis zu 70 cm lang).

stachellose

Stingless drones, I would say.

Stachellose Drohnen, würde ich sagen.

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stingless: Examples and translations in context

The topics of the workshops for the villagers include resource-efficient cooking with energy-efficient stoves, fish farming (there is also a fish pond at the tree nursery), handicraft production for the tourism industry, and stingless beekeeping for honey production.

Die Themen der Workshops für die Dorfbevölkerung beinhalten das ressourcenschonende Kochen mit energieeffizienten Kochern, Fischzucht (auf dem Gelände der Baumschule gibt es auch einen Fischteich), Herstellung von Kunsthandwerk für die Tourismusindustrie sowie Haltung von stachellosen Bienen zur Herstellung von Honig.

A honey bee (or honeybee), in contrast with the stingless honey bee, is any bee that is a member of the genus Apis, primarily distinguished by the production and storage of honey and the construction of perennial, colonial nests from wax.

Eine Honigbiene (oder Honigbienen), im Gegensatz zu der stachellosen Biene ist jede Biene, die ein Mitglied der Gattung Apis, vor allem durch die Produktion und Lagerung von Honig und den Bau der beständigen, Kolonialnester aus Wachs zu unterscheiden ist.

There are more than 500 species of stingless honey bees worldwide, 400 of them in Brazil alone.

Weltweit gibt es über 500 Arten von stachellosen Honigbienen, etwa 400 davon allein in Brasilien.

Learn all about the stingless Mayan bees - the meliponines

Erfahren Sie alles über die stachellosen Maya-Bienen - die Meliponines

"This is therefore not a solitary case, as it seems there is an astounding variety of social organization among other stingless honey bees," said Dr. Christoph Grüter of Mainz University.

"Es handelt sich also um keinen Einzelfall, sondern wir finden auch bei anderen stachellosen Honigbienen eine erstaunliche Vielfalt der sozialen Organisation", sagt Dr. Christoph Grüter von der JGU.

This was due to an endemic insect native to Central America - the stingless Melipona bee.

Das lag an einem endemischen, nur in Mittelamerika heimischen Insekt - der stachellosen Melipona-Biene.

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