word | apiary |
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definition | A place where bees are kept for their honey. |
eg_sentence | Apple orchards are excellent sites for apiaries, since the bees keep the apple trees productive by pollinating them. |
explanation | Beekeeping, or apiculture, is the care of honeybees that ensures that they produce more honey than they can use. An apiary usually consists of many separate beehives. The social life of a hive is strange and marvelous. The queen bee, who will become the mother of an entire colony, is actually created by being fed “royal jelly” while she is still only a larva. The tens of thousands of worker bees are underdeveloped females; only a handful of the bees are male, and they do no work at all. The workers defend the hive by kamikaze means, stinging any intruder and dying as they do so. There's more drama in a quiet-looking apiary than the casual observer might notice |
IPA | apiary* |
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