bee tree

noun

1. a hollow tree used by wild bees as a hive, especially the basswood or American linden.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bee tree¹

An Americanism dating back to 1775–85

Example Sentences

I chased him some distance and got him going fast, away from the bee tree, and then I came back for the wagon.”

From Literature

“Pa’s found a bee tree,” Ma said.

From Literature

For dinner they all had as much of the delicious honey as they could eat, and Pa told them how he found the bee tree.

From Literature

Seeley “calls for ‘Darwinian beekeeping”, modelled after Darwinian medicine, which posits that mismatches between the current environment and the environment to which an organism originally adapted diminish the organism’s fitness” — in this case, the differences between life in a bee tree and life in a beehive.

From Nature

For Seeley, this relates mainly to the differences between life in a bee tree and life in a beehive, especially in the northeastern United States.

From Nature