To make a humming or buzzing sound, especially as bees do.
From Latin 'bombilare,' derived from 'bombus' (a buzzing sound, from Greek). The Latin frequentative verb form emphasizes repeated buzzing.
Medieval scholars and naturalists loved this word to describe bee sounds—it's one of those wonderfully onomatopoetic terms that actually sounds like what it means!
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