"plasterer bee" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1974, Karl von Frisch, Otto von Frisch, Animal Architecture, page 68",
          "text": "The plasterer bees, as we have seen, line the interior walls of their subterranean chambers with a waterproof wallpaper; others achieve a similar result by impregnating the cell walls with a glandular secretion or coating them with a waxy material.",
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          "ref": "1989, Pamela Westland, Exploring Rural Greece, page 27",
          "text": "Plasterer bees build mud nests in the mouldings, butterflies brush the scenery with brilliant colour — lemon-yellow brimstones, dappled whites, large tortoiseshells and swallowtails are all there for the spotting.",
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          "ref": "2002, Karl Weiss, The Little Book of Bees, page 48",
          "text": "Like masked bees, plasterer bees (Colletinae) line their rows of cells with a mixture of saliva and glandular secretion that hardens into a cellophane-like membrane.[…]Each female plasterer bee fashions roughly ten brood cells separated by plaster-like walls and leaves a honey-pollen clump and one egg in every cell (see the bottom of Figure 5.1).",
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        "Any bee of the subfamily Colletinae, solitary bees that secrete a substance from their mouthparts to give a cellophane-like lining to their nests."
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          "english": "bee of family Colletidae",
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          "sense": "any species of subfamily Colletinae",
          "word": "polyester bee"
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