The queen uses these chemicals to keep the female worker
bees from producing eggs and to give them orders such as
to build more honeycomb or rear baby bees or to find and
store food.
As used in the sentence, what is the meaning of the word
rear?
Explanation: The verb rear means to take care of, support, and raise until maturity. To rear children is to raise them. The word rearing can be used as a noun, as in the rearing of livestock.
