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Answer for the clue "Fancy name for a beekeeper ", 8 letters:
apiarist

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Word definitions for apiarist in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a farmer who keeps bees for their honey [syn: beekeeper , apiculturist ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. beekeeper

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1816; see apiary + -ist .

Usage examples of apiarist.

Though I am, as I have said, an apiarist in good standing, I never realised that there were so many bees in the world.

The reason the honey was so universally prized did not lie in the flowers the bees visited, but in the fact that Hymettan apiarists never smoked their hives when gathering the honey.

It is recommended that recruitment of apiarists be prioritised and that bee delivery systems be investigated and developed.

The reason the honey was so universally prized did not lie in the flowers the bees visited, but in the fact that Hymettan apiarists never smoked their hives when gathering the honey.