apiarian
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of apiarian
Example Sentences
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Importing Italian queen bees from the U.S. and Mexi-Campello plans to stage a series of apiarian palace coups.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its keeper, a white-bearded octogenarian named Ernest Baudu, lectures any stray stroller who will listen on the facts of life, both apiarian and human.
From Time Magazine Archive
Near the narrowest part of southern Mexico, where the rugged Sierra Madre sweeps close to the coast, they have prepared a stand against the marauders, a kind of apiarian Thermopylae.
From Time Magazine Archive
For instance, he has clearly established that his bacteria -- while related to Bacillus sphaericus, a living resident of apiarian digestive tracts -- are genetically distinct from known microbes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Life is a beehive, Miss Parlow," said Alma, her rather grandiloquent and apiarian simile highly inaccurate, "some of us are the drones, some the workers, and some the queens.
From Star-Dust by Hurst, Fannie
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