bee-hive

/ˈbiːhaɪv/

A form of beehive — Such a home prepared by the bees themselves, in which some species of honey bees live and raise their young.

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Meanings

nounbee-hive (plural bee-hives)

plural bee-hives

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of beehive.

    And he said if a man owned a bee-hive, and that man died, the bees must be told about it before sun-up next morning, or else the bees would all weaken down and quit work and die.

    1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 69
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APA

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Chicago

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