beehive

Definition

A sheltered place where bees, usually honey bees (genus Apis), live.

Etymology

From Middle English beehyve, equivalent to bee + hive.

Example Sentences

• "A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,[…]."
• "By the time it was over, Stone had been blown thirty feet through the air by a beehive round as he was running across a field, knocked out by the concussion of the blast."
• "Brian Small said that the Minister could not 'hide in the beehive any longer'"

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