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- noun Plural form of
beehive .
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Hyves (its name being a play on the English word "beehives") says it has signed up 7 million Dutch residents, or almost half of the country's population of 16 million, since launching in 2004.
BusinessWeek.com -- 2009
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Lots of the bedrock in Antarctica is flat and boring, but certainly not here, and as Bell took a close look at her radar images of the ice piled high atop the mountains, she noticed some extraordinary, strange features - blobs that she describes as beehives, or maybe jelly doughnuts.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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I want everything that’s lacking in beehives and anthills: mountains, art, poetry, heroes, geniuses.
Inside the Revolutionary Mind, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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In the southern county of Tainan, towers of fireworks called "beehives" are set off in the middle of crowds of people, many of whom believe that the more fireworks hit their bodies, the more luck they will have.
Reuters: Top News 2011
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The bombers destroyed six mosques in Gaza City which held the terrorists 'biggest weapons arsenals and scores of "beehives" containing launchers primed for the simultaneous, automatic release of hundreds of powerful rockets against Israeli cities.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Motors and cycles he treated with tolerant disregard, but pigs, wheelbarrows, piles of stones by the roadside, perambulators in a village street, gates painted too aggressively white, and sometimes, but not always, the newer kind of beehives, turned him aside from his tracks in vivid imitation of the zigzag course of forked lightning.
Beasts and Super-Beasts 1870-1916 Saki 1893
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It seems these traps, and many other things, such as beehives, and tubs, etc., are frequently made in the South from a hollow gum-tree; hence the name gum has come to have a wide application.
The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton John Burroughs 1879
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A grass-in-the-head person, writes Boje, has "a desire to be an assemblage of animal herds, family clan, orchards, beehives, and crafts."
Mike Bonifer: Cenk Uygur Has a Tree in His Head Mike Bonifer 2011
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A grass-in-the-head person, writes Boje, has "a desire to be an assemblage of animal herds, family clan, orchards, beehives, and crafts."
Mike Bonifer: Cenk Uygur Has a Tree in His Head Mike Bonifer 2011
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Smart clusters came down first, beehives next, and the display was topped off with phosphorous for good measure.
365 tomorrows » 2010 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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