apiarist
- noun
- /ˈeɪpiˌɛrɪst/
- Specialized
- As an apiarist, she spent countless hours caring for her bees to ensure they produced quality honey.
- apiarist said
Examples
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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.
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Students learned about the life cycle of bees from the local apiarist at the community garden.
Synonyms
A person who keeps bees to collect honey
A person who keeps bees and collects their honey
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.