Having corbiculae or basket-like structures, especially used to describe bees that carry pollen in special leg pouches.
From Latin corbiculatus, formed from corbula (small basket) plus the suffix -ate, meaning 'having the quality of.' Scientific nomenclature adopted this term to describe bee morphology.
All honeybees and many other bee species are corbiculate, but some primitive bee groups never evolved these fancy pollen-carrying pouches—they had to find other ways to transport pollen home.
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