beehive
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- noun
- /ˈbiːhaɪv/
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colmena
- East of Tanga, out amidst the plantations and well into the bush, the Germans had placed beehives in the trees.
- honey from beehives
- honeycomb from a beehive
- bees in beehives
And so there must have been as a child me getting honey from a beehive, you know, up high.
- And so there must have been as a child me getting honey from a beehive, you know, up high.
- Yeah, mousetrap, mousetrap and hives A beehives.
- And yeah, so anyways, so it's just a little uncomfortable with like bees flying all around you when you're not even buy beehives.
Examples
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Think about the concentric pattern of honey, pollen, and brood that arises on the honeycombs of a beehive.
Academic text (2003) -
In here is where they have all the beehives, the beehives to make the honey for the hotel.
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Did you ever visit a beehive?
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The bee's behavior in the beehive is unbelievable.
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My daughter has built two beehives, and we are going to try our hand at that art.
Blog text (7) -
There was a huge beehive on a low-hanging branch.
Fiction book (1994) -
My grandfather had fifty beehives three years after coming to Bosnia.
Fiction book (1998) -
Dr. Branson leads us outside to a narrow side pen; a beehive-shaped structure sits at one end, a tripod at the other.
Fiction book (2000) -
If any of the beehive's complex mechanisms are compromised, the hive collapses.
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Many beekeepers maintain their beehives in gardens to support local bee populations.
Synonyms
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A box or other home where bees live
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Beehive comes from the two simple parts bee and hive, where hive means 'home'. So a beehive is literally a bee's home, the place where they live and make honey.