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apiarist

apiarist

1 9.3
A person who keeps bees and collects their honey
  • noun
  • /ˈeɪpiˌɛrɪst/
  • Specialized
: apicultor
  • As an apiarist, she spent countless hours caring for her bees to ensure they produced quality honey.
  • apiarist said

Examples

  • Consequently, the physiognomic classification would not provide the apiarist with necessary information.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Indeed, the apiarist would be interested almost exclusively in which nectar-producing species occur, where, and perhaps in what abundance.

    Academic text (1991)
  • If Ramsay knew that his father, a tall and elegant apiarist, had named him after the first Labour prime minister of Britain, the knowledge had had no discernible effect on his conduct.

    Academic text (2000)
  • The database may also be manipulated, as determined by the apiarist's criteria, to show regions of high, medium, or low potential for the expanded bee operation.

    Academic text (1991)
  • By recasting these selected floristic data using numerical ranges assigned to the percentage cover for each polygonal area, the apiarist has access to a map that shows both where the necessary species are and to what degree.

    Academic text (1991)
  • The experienced apiarist harvested honey from the beehives every spring.

  • Students learned about the life cycle of bees from the local apiarist at the community garden.

Synonyms

beekeeper
vsapiarist
11 3.0

A person who keeps bees to collect honey

focuses on hands on care rather than ownership or management
apiculturist
vsapiarist
  • Specialized
9.9

A person who keeps bees and collects their honey

focuses on routine care rather than breeding for honey

Surface Forms

apiarist singular
apiarists plural

Morphology

apiarist = apiary (semi-transparent) = apiary + ist

The agentive suffix '-ist' clearly yields 'one who works with an apiary', but learners who only know the common word 'bee' may not recognise 'apiary', so the derivation is not fully transparent.

Etymology

Apiarist comes from the Latin root apis meaning 'bee' and is related to apiary, a place where bees live. So an apiarist is a person who keeps bees and gathers their honey.