beehive

«beehive» in Mova's school dictionary: A box or other structure where bees live and make honey — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a beehive, beehives)

meaning for a pupil

1) A box or other structure where bees live and make honey. tree →

2) A hairstyle piled high on the head. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science: bees live in a hive with a queen, workers and drones, and make honey in wax cells shaped like hexagons. Safety: stay calm near a beehive. Phrases: busy as a beehive, beehive hairstyle.

examples

• The beekeeper opened the beehive carefully. tree →
• There are thousands of bees in one beehive. tree →
• Honey is stored in the beehive in wax cells. tree →
• The classroom was as busy as a beehive. tree →
• Do not poke a beehive. tree →
• Her grandmother once wore her hair in a beehive. tree →
• ‘In my youth, when I was an old man, we had a quantity of beehives. tree →

note

Often shortened to "hive". The cells of a honeycomb are hexagons (six sides) — a favourite maths fact. Wild bees may make a nest, not a beehive.

In the corpora

• In Kenya, farmers hang beehives along fences, and the elephants keep away from their fields.
• A beehive on a summer day is a city of about 50,000 bees, and every bee in it has a job.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «beehive» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.