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Medium-depth empty honey storage supers (a super is the part of the beehive used to collect honey) were put on the hives at this time in addition to the three brood chambers already there.

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  1. noun Informal An article or a product of superior size, quality, or grade.
  2. noun Informal A superintendent in an apartment or office building.
  3. noun Informal A supernumerary.
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  • In so far as they directed foreign blood into our national body in this process, they contributed to that catastrophic splintering of our inner being which is expressed in German super-individualism - a phenomenon, I am sorry to say, which is praised in many quarters. —  Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf: The State
  • "It's just two super, super, super-competitive guys going at each other."
  • Acai Berry has been referred to as the super food and research is proving that it is indeed a super food. —  Article Source
  • (I always envision a blazing red Q and a windswept cape when the word super is touted - a testimony to my visual thinking process) but quinoa, I have to tell you is not even a grain, —  Karina's Kitchen: Gluten-Free Recipes
  • Olympus pretty much invented what we now call the super-zoom digital camera, launching the ambitious C-2100UZ (Ultra Zoom) in 2000. —  TrustedReviews Site-wide Feed
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  1. From super-.

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/ˈsjupər/
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