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Answer for the clue "Hive's head ", 5 letters:
queen

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs a female sovereign ruler [syn: queen regnant , female monarch ] [ant: king , king ] the wife or widow of a king something personified ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English cwen "queen, female ruler of a state, woman, wife," from Proto-Germanic *kwoeniz (cognates: Old Saxon quan "wife," Old Norse kvaen , Gothic quens ), ablaut variant of *kwenon (source of quean ), from PIE *gwen- "woman, wife" supposedly originally ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Queen is a subway station on the Yonge–University line in Toronto , Ontario , Canada . It is located under Yonge Street north from Queen Street to Shuter Street. Wi-fi service is available at this station.

Usage examples of queen.

But so please you I will not abide till then, but will kneel to him and to his Lady and Queen here and now.

O Queen Rabesqurat, the haven of our voyage was Aklis, and we feared delay, seeing the fire of the mountain ablaze with expectations of us.

I can assure you I have quite a lot at my disposal all kinds of different spells fee faw fums, mumbo jumbos, abraxas, love potions, he glanced quickly at the queen here and added, though I see you have no need of the last of those, having a very beautiful wife whom you love to distraction.

We will bring Sir Addis and Moira nothing but trouble, and the enmity of the Queen and Mortimer.

Meanwhile James addressed a letter to several lords who had been formerly members of his council, as well as to divers ladies of quality and distinction, intimating the pregnancy of his queen, and requiring them to attend as witnesses at the labour.

The lord-keeper delivered to the house a message from the queen, desiring they would adjourn to the fourteenth day of the month.

The anti-courtiers alleged, that the queen could not send a message to any one house to adjourn, but ought to have directed it to both houses.

The lords and commons having adjourned themselves to the last day of December, the queen closed the year with triumphal processions.

Having voted an application to the queen in behalf of the distressed Catalans, the house adjourned itself to the last day of March.

But she was not Moon, she was the ageless Queen of Winter, and as he watched her deal with the off worlders and nobles who came before her at court that truth was made plain to him over and over.

Ebon Rih, meeting with the Queens who ruled the Rihlander Blood villages of Doun and Agio, and talking to the council members who ran the larger landen villages.

Severeemish, in part through the queen of Agora, had been couched in terms of blood and lineage.

The alchemical symbolism is lavish: base and precious metals, kings and queens.

Chataya has no cause to love the queen, though, and she knows that she has you to thank for ridding her of Allar Deem.

I thought you had been made almoner, or something like that, to the Queen.