Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A place where bees and beehives are kept, especially a place where bees are raised for their honey.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place where bees are kept; a stand or shed for bees; a bee-house containing a number of beehives.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A place where bees are kept; a stand or shed for bees; a beehouse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A place where
bees and theirhives are kept.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a shed containing a number of beehives
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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I love the dressing: I used huckleberry honey from a local apiary, which is dark and flavorful.
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"'The blind girl sees,' said I to myself; 'she sees through thousands of eyes; the apiary is her life, her soul.
The Man-Wolf and Other Tales Erckmann-Chatrian
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This will be the first airport in the USA with an on-site apiary.
Joan Brunwasser: Magazine Publisher Moonlights as Urban Beekeeper Joan Brunwasser 2011
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They also created two guest cottages, greenhouses, an apiary and vegetable, flower and berry gardens.
Vast Open Space, Near the End of the World Juliet Chung 2011
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I can spend hours in the apiary just watching them come and go.
Joan Brunwasser: Magazine Publisher Moonlights as Urban Beekeeper Joan Brunwasser 2011
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Books couldn't tell me everything I needed to know, so I visited an apiary in South
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They also created two guest cottages, greenhouses, an apiary and vegetable, flower and berry gardens.
Patagonia Retreat 2011
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For some background, my article on the economics of the apiary.
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They also created two guest cottages, greenhouses, an apiary and vegetable, flower and berry gardens.
Vast Open Space, Near the End of the World Juliet Chung 2011
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Meanwhile, Mr. Niven continued the standup comedy at the podium, even as he bid more than $3,000 for a beekeeper tour of an urban apiary, for his former wife, who had requested it.
Auction of Heirlooms 2011
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