colony collapse disorder

noun

Definitions

  1. A mysterious and widespread phenomenon of the sudden disappearance of colonies of bees.

    • As many as a quarter of the nation's commercially kept bees went missing last year, presumed dead, in a phenomenon now called colony collapse disorder.

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