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beehive
[ bee-hahyv ]
noun
- a crowded, busy place.
- something resembling an artificial beehive in appearance, as a hut or hairdo.
- Also called beehive oven. an oven for converting coal into coke, characterized by its dome-shaped roof.
Beehive
1/ ˈbiːˌhaɪv /
noun
- the dome-shaped building that houses sections of Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand
- the New Zealand government
beehive
2/ ˈbiːˌhaɪv /
noun
- a man-made receptacle used to house a swarm of bees
- a dome-shaped hair style in which the hair is piled high on the head
- a place where busy people are assembled
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Already, some companies offer augmented beehives that monitor conditions inside, or even robotically tend the bees.
On each cadaver, they began by making an incision behind the ear, and then found the triangular opening to the mastoid, a part of the skull that “kind of looks like a beehive with a bunch of air cells and very, very, very thin bone,” Stewart says.
It all starts when a hornet scout finds a beehive and returns with reinforcements.
Maturing trees provided fruits and supported beehives for honey production.
Photos from the fire department show hundreds of bees swarming around the car as Johnson loaded them into beehive boxes.
The Bees Laline Paull (Ecco) This arresting debut novel is a daring dystopian story set in a beehive.
A 30-yard free kick resulted and the rangy Brazilian, his hair a beehive of curls, cannoned the ball into the Colombian net.
The portrait, titled Amy Jade, depicts the tattooed songstress with her signature beehive hairstyle in a yellow dress.
Jeb Bush recently stuck a stick in the GOP beehive on immigration and common core education standards.
She wore an apple-green housedress and her graying beehive hairdo was unyielding against the blasts of a chugging air conditioner.
It is of beehive structure, and a regular little ease in pattern; for the inmate can neither sit, stand, nor lie in any comfort.
I was told I could have either a break-wind of boughs or a beehive hut, and on consideration I chose the latter.
Pawnee Lodge, thatched with prairie grass, in form of a straw beehive.
Every monastery was an inn, as well as a beehive, to which all travellers resorted, and where no pay was exacted.
They were generally industrious; every convent was a beehive, in which various kinds of manufactures were produced.
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