Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to bees or to the keeping and care of bees.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to bees, or to beekeeping.
- noun A bee-keeper; an apiarist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or relating to bees.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to
bees orbeekeeping . - noun An
apiarist ; abeekeeper .
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- adjective relating to bees or beekeeping
Etymologies
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Examples
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If there is a comparable odor, it is, indeed, the moldly inner sanctum of some fermenting, bursting hive; but beet pollen is honey squared, royal jelly cubed, nectar raised to the nth power; the intensified secretions of the Earth's apiarian gland, reeking of ancient bridal chambers and intimacies half as old as time.
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The bees, he announced, would be taken to "a farm in Connecticut," which, assuming this is not a euphemism, is hardly the worst summertime fate for a New Yorker, apiarian or otherwise.
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To be-labor my apiarian analogy: the honey that's dipped from that busy hive can be sweet and nourishing, or it can be hallucinogenic and deadly.
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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To be-labor my apiarian analogy: the honey that's dipped from that busy hive can be sweet and nourishing, or it can be hallucinogenic and deadly.
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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A quantity of fine artificial "wax" and natural tallow were added to the offerings, in case she was more apiarian than insectoid.
Damia's Children McCaffrey, Anne 1993
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The publication has been pronounced useful to the practical apiarian and a valuable contribution to the natural history of the honey-bee.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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Just such a buzz and murmur as then arises might have been heard in Weston court-yard when the boys poured out from the schools, only increased so much in volume as the human vocal organs are more powerful than the apiarian.
Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough
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Purchase of some dealer or manufacturer of apiarian supplies, a good Langstroth hive complete with section boxes.
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It might have been efficacious if the subaltern had been engaging in apiarian operations, but as far as present events went it was a "frost."
Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force Ernest [Illustrator] Prater 1917
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Francois Huber, the master and classic of contemporary apiarian science.
The Life of the Bee Maurice Maeterlinck 1905
oroboros commented on the word apiarian
Sounds like the letters: A P R E N.
May 17, 2008