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What does beelike mean?

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Adjective
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a bee.
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Down to the most idiosyncratic detail, all this is familiar: the beelike buzzing seems like a nod to Jack Thayer's comparison of the sounds of the dying to locusts on a summer night.
The warble, or bot, flies Hypoderma lineatum and H. bovis are large, heavy, and beelike.
Wearing bulbous sunglasses that gave him a beelike aspect, Shavitz stood by the building's back alley, where he used to park his motorcycle, and remarked that his rent had been just thirty dollars.
The drones, operated by the C. I. A., fly overhead sometimes four at a time, emitting a beelike hum virtually 24 hours a day, observing and tracking targets, then unleashing missiles on their quarry, they said.
Included among the invertebrates are moth flies, wood gnats, midges, punkies, mosquitoes, marsh beetles, and beelike or wasplike syrphid flies.

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