Concept cluster: Tools > Hives and bee colonies
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A swarm of bees that leaves the hive after the primary swarm.
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A beehive, or anything resembling a beehive.
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A place where bees and their hives are kept.
adj
(obsolete, rare) Synonym of asinine (“ass-like, donkey-like, in sutbbornness, foolishness, or other ways”).
adj
Like or resembling an ass; asinine.
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A community gathering to share labour, e.g. a sewing bee or a quilting bee.
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(apiculture) A panel having holes or mesh allowing bees to be removed from a hive before honey is harvested.
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A farm of bees.
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A structure built to give solitary bees a place to nest, rest, and breed.
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Alternative spelling of beehive [An enclosed structure in which some species of honey bees (genus Apis) live and raise their young.]
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An enclosed structure in which some species of honey bees (genus Apis) live and raise their young.
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Alternative form of hive of activity [(idiomatic) A very busy place.]
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The keeping of bees in hives.
n
A beehive or apiary.
n
A skep; a beehive made of straw or wicker.
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(Scotland, Northern England) A hive of bees, or a nest of wasps, hornets, or ants.
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Born and raised in a royal family.
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An ancient Mediterranean ritual based on the belief that bees were spontaneously generated from a cow’s carcass.
adj
Alternative spelling of bulllike Earlier and more common.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a bumpkin.
adj
Like or characteristic of a butch.
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Alternative form of bike (wasps' or hornets' nest) [(Scotland, Northern England) A hive of bees, or a nest of wasps, hornets, or ants.]
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(obsolete) The second or third swarm of bees which leaves a hive in a season.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a caveman.
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Resembling or befitting a charlatan; fraudulent.
adj
Resembling a customer.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a donkey; asinine.
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(beekeeping, archaic) An empty box placed above the existing boxes of the beehive in order to allow the colony to expand or store additional honey.
n
(beekeeping) A spacer put between or over or under hive parts to make more space.
adj
Having characteristics of a fad.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of gibberish; apparently nonsensical.
n
(idiomatic, fiction) A morally ambiguous character; a antihero
adj
Resembling a groom (all senses).
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Resembling or characteristic of a harem.
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Resembling a hick.
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Like or characteristic of a hidalgo.
adj
Covered in hair or bristles; hairy.
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A structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees.
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Synonym of hive of activity.
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A bee (or other creature) that occupies the same hive as another.
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One who collects bees into a hive.
adj
(informal) Resembling or characteristic of a Hoosier.
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A manmade structure created to provide shelter for insects.
adj
(informal) Resembling or reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan.
n
A beehive made up of frames that can easily be removed to access the honeycombs.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a liver (the organ) or its meat.
v
(intransitive) To come in a swarm.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a Lollard.
n
Alternative form of mother-hive [the principal or source hive of a colony of bees]
n
the principal or source hive of a colony of bees
v
(transitive, beekeeping) To extend (a beehive) by adding an empty box at the base.
adj
Resembling, or characteristic of, a nebbish
adj
Pertaining to or resembling a nickname.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of an ocker (boorish, uncultivated Australian).
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(beekeeping) A temporary location with better sources of pollen to which a hive is moved during times when the plants in the normal location of the hive have dried up.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a prisoner.
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(beekeeping) A small case used to introduce and protect a new queen bee to a queenless hive in order to determine whether the new queen will be accepted or rejected
adj
Resembling rape (the violent act).
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.
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Resembling a son.
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(beekeeping) The process of storifying (storing honey in additional tiers of a hive).
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a straw man (an insubstantial concept, idea, endeavor or argument).
v
(beekeeping) To add or to place a superhive atop the existing boxes of the beehive.
adj
Pertaining to, or resembling, a swain; ignorant, rustic.
n
A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.
adj
Of bees: inclined to swarm.
adj
Resembling a teacup.
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Resembling or characteristic of a thief.
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Resembling or characteristic of a wiseacre.
adj
Alternative form of zajalesque [Characteristic of or similar to a zajal.]

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