stingless

adjective

sting·​less ˈstiŋ-ləs How to pronounce stingless (audio)
: having no sting or stinger

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Sawfly Also called rose slugs, sawflies are stingless, wasp-like insects. Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 24 Aug. 2025 Dr England and collaborators then found that predatory wasps emit electrical fields (Figure 2B,C,D,E) that are significantly different in both magnitude and polarity from those emitted by friendly stingless bees that often protect treehoppers from their predators. Grrlscientist, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025 Going forward, Wood's team will seek to further improve the mechanical damping upon landing, drawing lessons from stingless bees and mosquitoes, as well as scaling up to larger vehicles. ArsTechnica, 16 Apr. 2025 The mixology team is hard at work infusing, distilling, and dehydrating seasonal ingredients, including rare honey produced by stingless bees endemic to Costa Rica. Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2025 With over 600 species, stingless honey bees are the largest group of honey-producing bees; they’re found throughout tropical and subtropical parts of the world. New Atlas, 27 Oct. 2024 Her sentences are as precise as always, but stingless, the edges of irony sanded down. Nicholas Dames, The Atlantic, 14 June 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1554, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of stingless was in 1554

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“Stingless.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stingless. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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