Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The raising and care of bees for commercial or agricultural purposes.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The rearing of bees.
Wiktionary
- n. The keeping and maintenance of bees for commercial reasons.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Rearing of bees for their honey and wax.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the cultivation of bees on a commercial scale for the production of honey
Etymologies
- From Latin apis ("bee") + culture (Wiktionary)
- Latin apis, bee + culture. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Farmers in Tabi struggle to keep up with the pace of that change, seeking alternatives to feed their families, such as apiculture and selling firewood, while women are doing crafts to earn extra money.”
“As you get to know Al, you learn that in addition to his regard for apiculture, he is also an evangelical Christian.”
“There's lots of lovely symbolism in the processes of apiculture and (more unexpectedly) the Blessed Virgin Mary.”
“A presentation on the art of apiculture; honey extraction demonstrations by beekeepers of the northern Shenandoah.”
“While Megan is ecstatic about her Greenpoint rooftop honeybee hive and especially loves honey, her interest in apiculture stems from her desire to maximize the amount of food she can produce in her 700 square foot Brooklyn backyard.”
“Beekeepers all around the world are noticing their bees dwindle and disappear," says the professor of apiculture and social insects.”
“\ "Beekeepers all around the world are noticing their bees dwindle and disappear, \" says the professor of apiculture and social insects.”
“For, instead of pumping more money into research on bees and apiculture, DEFRA have actually cut the amount of money allocated to such research: The total budget for research into bee health in this country is now less than £200,000 a year, and DEFRA has recently laid off some of Britain's leading bee scientists and closed down the bee health research centre at Rothamsted in Hertfordshire.”
“In this book, there are quotations from apiculture books before each chapter, and each and every one of them is related to what the characters are going through.”
“The museum focuses on the Carniolan bee (prized for its gentleness -- it won't attack humans unless its home is threatened) and local beekeepers who, by the 16th century, had pioneered a form of apiculture in which wooden hives are stacked together in several rows and housed under one roof.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘apiculture’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
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abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Rare Words - A
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AGRI - apiculture
acacia, alfalfa, Arbutus unedo, ash content, baker's honey, Banksia menziesii, bee plant, Bell heather, blackberry honey, blend of honeys, blossom honey, borage and 183 more...
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The Whole Ball of Wax
Feel free to wax poetic.
the whole ball of..., wax poetic, wax, beeswax, ambergris, cedar waxwing, sealing wax, earwax, paraffin, bougie, epicuticular wax, waxing gibbous moon and 192 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
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axilla, avalement, argil, argent, argand, arete, aretaics, areometer, areology, arenoid, arenaceous, arefy and 1214 more...
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Down on the Farm
All things farm and agriculture related.
barn, tractor, cow, hay, horse, pig, corn, plough, irrigation, subsidies, crops, plant and 260 more...
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Cultivating Cultures
agriculture, apiculture, sericulture, horticulture, aquaculture, subculture, permaculture, monoculture, viticulture, floriculture, cyberculture, counterculture and 21 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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A hive for the honey bee
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee,
And live alone ...absconding swarm, afterswarm, alighting board, american foulbrood, apiary, apiculture, apis mellifera, bee blower, bee bread, bee brush, beehive, beeswax and 71 more...
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bee
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linds7's Words
hector, mahogany, omnipotent, chutzpah, qualm, bossy, delectable, phantasmagorical, ambulophobia, androphobia, autodysomophobia, lutraphobia and 8 more...
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