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Definition of Beehive

1. Noun. Any workplace where people are very busy.

2. Noun. A structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree.

3. Noun. A hairdo resembling a beehive.

4. Noun. A man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees.

Definition of Beehive

1. n. A hive for a swarm of bees. Also used figuratively.

Definition of Beehive

1. Noun. (Mormonism) A 12-13 year old participant in the Young Women organization of the LDS Church. ¹

2. Proper noun. (New Zealand) The common name for the executive wing of the New Zealand parliament buildings. ¹

3. Proper noun. New Zealand government. ¹

4. Noun. An enclosed structure in which some species of honey bees (genus ''Apis'') live and raise their young. ¹

5. Noun. A man-made structure in which bees are kept for their honey. ¹

6. Noun. (figuratively) Any place full of activity, or in which people are very busy. ¹

7. Noun. A women's hairstyle, popular in the 1960s, in which long hair is styled into a hive-shaped form on top of the head and usually held in place with lacquer. ¹

8. Noun. A type of anti-personnel ammunition round containing flechettes, and characterised by the buzzing sound made as they fly through the air. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Beehive

1. a hive for bees [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Beehive

beefsteak begonia beefsteak fungus beefsteak geranium beefsteak morel beefsteak plant beefsteak tomato beefsteaks beefwood beefwoods beefy

beeg beegah beegahs beegum beegums beehive beehive shelf beehive shelves beehived beehives

beehood beehouse beehouses beeing beekeeper beekeepers beekeeping beekeepings beeless beelike

Literary usage of Beehive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Conservation of Natural Resources in the United States by Charles Richard Van Hise (1918)
"WASTE OF COAL IN Beehive COKE OVENS Much of the waste of coal is in its use. Adjacent to Pittsburg are about 35000 beehive coke ovens, and in the United ..."

2. The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel by James McIntyre Camp, Charles Blaine Francis (1920)
"1 Plant of the HC Frick Coke Company may be cited as an example of beehive coke practice. It is located near Uniontown, Pa., in the southeastern part of the ..."

3. The Past in the Present: What is Civilization? by Arthur Mitchell (1881)
"SEVERAL of the beehive-houses which are now in ruins have a sleeping-place in the thickness of the wall. 1 have already alluded to this as an occasional ..."

4. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1907)
"The beehive coke oven, which was named from its resemblance to the old-fashioned beehive, is the oven most generally used in America. ..."

5. Coke: A Treatise on the Manufacture of Coke and Other Prepared Fuels and the by John Fulton (1905)
"Beehive COKE OVEN The name beehive evidently had its genesis in the close resemblance of the internal form of this oven to the ancient dome-shaped beehive. ..."

6. The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland from the Earliest Christian by Ross, Thomas, David MacGibbon (1896)
"We have in Scotland several examples of similar churches associated with beehive huts, and sometimes surrounded by a wall. Examples also occur of groups of ..."

7. Transactions by North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers., Gerard H. Matthes (1905)
"Beehive coke-ovens have been used since 1765, when several were working on the Tyne. They have been described by Mr. AL Steavenson in his paper on " The ..."

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