bombylious

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  1. Buzzing; humming like a bee. Vexatious, … not by stinging, … but only by their bombylious noise. Derham, Physico-Theol., iv. 14.

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  1. from Greek βομβυλιός, a bumblebee (see bombylius), + -ous.
 

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