Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A house or repository for bees; an apiary.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A house for bees; an apiary.

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  • noun A beehive or apiary.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a shed containing a number of beehives

Etymologies

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bee +‎ house

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Examples

  • When the unbearable heat drove us at mid-day to seek shelter, he took us to his beehouse in the very heart of the forest.

    A Sportsman's Sketches 2003

  • Suddenly she heard footsteps and voices; some one was coming along the path towards the beehouse.

    The Party Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

  • At the beehouse there is an old grandsire who remembers the King

    Letters of Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

  • 'Look,' I answered, 'how clean it is in Kalinitch's beehouse.'

    A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850

  • When the unbearable heat drove us at mid-day to seek shelter, he took us to his beehouse in the very heart of the forest.

    A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850

  • This characteristic makes it possible to sort of domesticate them, as a great number of bees will gladly cohabitate in a relatively small beehouse.

    Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine 2010

  • A beehouse can be pretty much anything that provides a bunch of these holes, such as a block of wood with holes drilled into it, or a collection of little paper tubes taped together.

    Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine 2010

  • A beehouse can be pretty much anything that provides a bunch of these holes, such as a block of wood with holes drilled into it, or a collection of little paper tubes taped together.

    Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine 2010

  • This characteristic makes it possible to sort of domesticate them, as a great number of bees will gladly cohabitate in a relatively small beehouse.

    Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine 2010

  • These companies will also sell you mason bee cocoons, if you don't want to wait for the neighborhood bees to stumble across your beehouse on their own.

    Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine 2010

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