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apiculture

apiculture

8.4
Keeping and caring for bees to produce honey and wax
  • noun
  • /ˈeɪpɪˌkʌltʃər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : apicultura
  • Many farmers are turning to apiculture as a sustainable way to enhance pollination and produce honey.

Examples

  • In her garden, she practices apiculture to harvest honey and support local bee populations.

  • Alphonse Kauders had been a member of seven libraries, of seven apiculture societies, of seven communist parties, and of one national socialist.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • The workshop on apiculture taught participants how to properly care for bees and maintain hives.

Synonyms

beekeeping
vsapiculture
4 3.7

Care for bees so they make honey and other products

is the formal or scientific term for the same practice

Surface Forms

apiculture singular
apicultures plural

Morphology

apiculture = culture (semi-transparent) = api + culture

Formed by adding the combining form 'api-' (bee) to 'culture'; 'api-' is not a common standalone English word, so learners may only partially recover the meaning.

Etymology

The word apiculture comes from the Latin root api- meaning 'bee' and the word culture meaning 'to grow' or 'to care for', the same culture in agriculture. So, apiculture literally means 'bee care', keeping and breeding bees and looking after beehives to get honey and other products.