apiary
noun
a place in which a colony or colonies of bees are kept, as a stand or shed for beehives or a bee house containing a number of beehives.
apiaries
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pluralof apiary.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Finally, they experimentally infected bees from two colonies in central Pennsylvania with strains of the virus found in the Arnot Forest and the managed apiaries.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2023
At the time of the first theft, he said he went to check on two of his apiaries and found the brood boxes, which contained the queens, were missing.
From BBC ● May 16, 2023
The plan was equally straightforward: Community-owned farms would feed everyone and fund additional industries, including apiaries, hatcheries, canneries, smithies, brickyards and even a film studio.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2023
When the researchers placed buffets of animal dung near several apiaries, bees harvested clumps of it, dabbing their nests in carefully mounded lumps, each roughly the size of a sesame or poppy seed.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2020
That we find it so universally planted in our church-yards, was doubtless some symbol of immortality, the tree being so lasting, and always green: Our bee-masters banish it from about their apiaries.
From Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees by John Nisbet
