Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name of the bass-wood or American linden, Tilia Americana, from the richness of its flowers in honey.
- noun A hollow tree occupied by wild bees.
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Examples
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His head was quite broken, and like honey from a fallen bee-tree his brains dripped on the ground.
Chapter 21 2010
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It looked to Kellen as if the Centaur had been up to his old thievish tricks again, and this time he'd had the poor judgment to try robbing a bee-tree when the bees were all at home.
Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010
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It looked to Kellen as if the Centaur had been up to his old thievish tricks again, and this time he'd had the poor judgment to try robbing a bee-tree when the bees were all at home.
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Diana; find in the poets, from Hesiod to the later Anthology, a hundred sweet references -- to the bee-tree in the oak-wood, to the flowery hill
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I heard him asking you this very morning when you would find a bee-tree for him, the way you used to do up in Maine.
The Boy Scouts' First Camp Fire or, Scouting with the Silver Fox Patrol Herbert Carter
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When the boys started for the bee-tree they carried a bundle of dry palmetto fans, an axe, and a bucket for the honey.
Dick in the Everglades A. W. Dimock
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The first frost in the fall of the year indicates the time to remove the surplus honey from the hives; and to cut a bee-tree merely for its supply of honey and wax.
The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy Robert Elliott Flickinger
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When a bee-tree is to be robbed, great piles of a certain plant or weed are collected and put in such a position that the smoke will be carried against the nesting-places of the swarms.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson
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Hannah fell to at this feast of knowledge like a young bear in a bee-tree.
Hillsboro People Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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In taking up a bee-tree it is usual first to kill or stupefy the bees with the fumes of burning sulphur or with tobacco smoke.
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