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Place that's really buzzing
Answer for the clue "Place that's really buzzing ", 6 letters:
apiary
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Word definitions for apiary in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
An apiary (also known as a bee yard ) is a place where beehives of honey bees are kept. Traditionally beekeepers (also known as apiarists) paid land rent in honey for the use of small parcels. Some farmers will provide free apiary sites, because they need ...
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n. a shed containing a number of beehives [syn: bee house ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from Latin apiarium "beehouse, beehive," neuter of apiarius "of bees," from apis "bee," a mystery word unrelated to any similar words in other Indo-European languages. A borrowing from Semitic has been proposed.
Usage examples of apiary.
He was nearing the apiary, wading through tall grass and wildflowers, aware of their scent and of the faint buzz in the air.
This sudden awareness passed quickly, and he was once more in his own apiary, studying the single bee as she worked to get the nectar from his sleeve.
And an apiary could be dangerous to someone with no experience of bees.
Brazil waded through the tall grass at the edge of the apiary, his mouth dry and a twisting knot in his stomach.
She ran out of the house, up onto the pasture above the apiary, trying desperately to put distance between herself and the angry bees, waving her empty trousers behind her.
Most of the people who stop here think that an apiary is a place where apes live.
Colonies of defective bees were about to be flown from the experimental apiary at the University of California at Davis.
Beltsville, Maryland, was able to locate quickly a large apiary outside Baltimore where American foulbrood had broken out.
Fine was curious and began watching him through the glass wall separating the experimental apiary from the lab.
We are doing everything in our power to preserve the safety of domestic bees in apiaries in the infected areas.
Jeremy, quite dispassionately, that ten or a dozen stings from the stock of these apiaries were very commonly enough to kill an adult human.
This marvellous prerogative the Osmia shares with a host of apiaries, in which the unequal development of the males and females requires an unequal provision of space and of nourishment for the future larvae.
Heaths, or places abounding in wild flowers, constitute the best neighbourhood for an apiary, and in default of this pasturage, there should be gardens where flowers are cultivated, and fields in which buck-wheat, clover, or sainfoin, is sown.
We are doing everything in our power to preserve the safety of domestic bees in apiaries in the infected areas.
Jeremy, quite dispassionately, that ten or a dozen stings from the stock of these apiaries were very commonly enough to kill an adult human.