Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of, relating to, or having the characteristics of bees.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Of or pertaining to bees.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Related to bees.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Belonging to bees.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. relating to or having the characteristics of bees

Etymologies

  1. From Latin apis, bee.

Examples

  • “Because the bees do not speak in plain language, but in cryptic phrases that appear nonsensical to those untrained in the apian way.”

    Fictionaut: The light that draws the flower

  • “Plus, I refuse to use the slave labor products of my captive apian-friends.”

    Bound but not Gagged

  • “If Bee runs, look for apian puns in the press and on this blog.”

    Archive 2006-11-01

  • “It's maybe three hundred feet down the mountain, so the whole thing is laid out like apian.”

    Running Blind

  • “For the human shell is not merely geometrical and architectural, like those of apian or beaverish communities; it holds and expresses all those differences by which we are exalted above the bee or the beaver.”

    Civics: as Applied Sociology

  • “I actually had another card ( apian rushmore card ..similar age but a better card) ...”

    Kubuntu Forums

  • “These are produced by the bees on the outside of the cluster performing what can best be described as highly co-ordinated apian moonies.”

    The Guardian World News

  • “The boxes can be variously configured, whether into a two-story wildlife B&B or a high-rise hotel, to suit your apian lodgers 'every need.”

    Fast Company

  • “BBC talking about the apian health crisis and the perilous honey business.”

    Emdashes

  • “It is also widely accepted that we had apian ancestors.”

    Cosmic Log

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