Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or having the characteristics of bees.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to bees.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Belonging to bees.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. relating to or having the characteristics of bees
Etymologies
- 19th Century, from Latin apiānus, from apis ("bee"). (Wiktionary)
- From Latin apis, bee. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Because the bees do not speak in plain language, but in cryptic phrases that appear nonsensical to those untrained in the apian way.”
“Football fans will perhaps be unsurprised to learn that the vuvuzela, whose apian drone soundtracked yet another summer of hurt, has blared its way into the dictionary's pages.”
The Guardian: Climate change and the vuvuzela leave mark on Oxford Dictionary of English
“Plus, I refuse to use the slave labor products of my captive apian-friends.”
“If Bee runs, look for apian puns in the press and on this blog.”
“It's maybe three hundred feet down the mountain, so the whole thing is laid out like apian.”
“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.”
“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.”
“These are produced by the bees on the outside of the cluster performing what can best be described as highly co-ordinated apian moonies.”
“I actually had another card ( apian rushmore card ..similar age but a better card) ...”
“BBC talking about the apian health crisis and the perilous honey business.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘apian’.
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Rare Words - A
Not just rare words, but thousands of RARE WORDS WITH DEFINITIONS.
If you want to see the definitions, too, go to
http://phrontistery.i...aba, abacinate, abactor, abaculus, abaft, abampere, abapical, abarticular, abasement, abasia, abask, abatis and 1214 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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phrontistery - a
from phrontistery.info
aba, abacinate, abactor, abaculus, abaft, abampere, abapical, abarticular, abasement, abasia, abask, abatis and 1214 more...
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Animal Descriptors
Do any of your friends eat like a pig? Sly like a fox? Fast as a cheetah? Maybe these words describe them better
erinaceous, alaudine, phocine, porcine, accipritine, acarine, alopecoid, anatine, anguine, anopheline, apian, arietine and 80 more...
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capitalcreative's Words
deviltry, visceral, cassanova, assuage, genesis, hot minute, osmosis, wistful, sublime, loathe, farfetched, newfangled and 283 more...
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words
diplopic, dolorous, farrago, surety, scuttlebutt, Arabesque, infarct, neurasthenia, lambent, expurge, univocal, simper and 395 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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DFW
Belonging to David Foster Wallace's immeasurable and inimitable vocabulary.
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Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
By David Foster Wallace
emeritus, apian, fenestration, prophylax, pelisse, niggardly, lallating, pica, simulacrum, floridly, acquiesced, truculent and 114 more...
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gorgonglare's list
the best
zeppelin, ion, laconic, serendipity, cataract, saturnine, syzygy, cinnabar, bistro, lithium, paroxysm, scion and 694 more...
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Latinate Adjectives
ursine, vulpine, leonine, lupine, porcine, apian, vermian, cygnean, gallinaceous, cetacean, renal, hepatic and 14 more...
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Tiny and Beautiful
Small, but strange.
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Practical/Scientific/Down-to-Earth/Pr...
The in-the-earth, finger grasping, paint-stained chipping of nails against boarded windows.
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Science
Tweets
Looking for tweets for apian.
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