Definition of beehive in English:

beehive

noun ˈbiːhʌɪvˈbiˌhaɪv

1A dome-shaped or boxlike structure in which bees are kept.
Example sentencesExamples
- Similarly, honey is extracted from beehives maintained by the members.
- Other plans include flower beds, organic vegetable plots, beehives and a seating area.
- Her grandfather was a successful farmer who owned potato fields, beehives, and a few head of cattle.
- However, the ideal places for establishing bee colonies were locations where the farm pesticide use was low, and where there were several beehives in the wild.
- When Geoff Manning was given three beehives to care for as a young man he never imagined it would become a life-long passion.
- Mr Britton kept beehives in his garden and sold honey from the gate.
- Think about the concentric pattern of honey, pollen, and brood that arises on the honey combs of a beehive.
- At their detached home on the edge of the village, Mrs Britton enjoyed tending the garden, where Mr Britton kept beehives.
- The good boy's father was a beekeeper, so one evening our bold hero went down to his father's beehives with a large jam jar and collected a jar full of Drone bees.
- When it is in bloom, the honey gathered from the beehives in the vicinity was valued highly.
- I have very clear memories of the family, their beehives and garden.
- Closer by, the route passes some super old farmyards and barns, one has recesses for beehives.
- When he came in here, he knocked down a beehive and sent the bees flying all over.
- A few years ago the Honey Lady had tens of active beehives.
- The farm consists of an area of fruit trees interplanted with annual vegetables, a mixed orchard of fruit trees with rows of beehives between the trees, 5 hectares of pasture, three hectares of wheat and a plantation of native pines.
- The highlight of the garden party was that an angry swarm of bees, whose beehive had been disturbed by accident, swooped down on the assembled guests.
- In yet another, carpenters using modern hand tools are making beehives.
- The first sweet treat that humans indulged in was most likely honey from beehives.
- Wrapped in this parcel of frivolity is the arrival of the Kaani tribes from Papanasam who amused them by demonstrating the extraction of honey from the beehive and talking plain about their lifestyle.
- However, the honey must come from local beehives.
1. 1.1usually as modifier Something having the domed shape of a traditional beehive.
  穹顶，圆顶
  a beehive hut
  圆顶小屋。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is understood that the underground passages and beehive shaped chamber were constructed as hiding places or as places of storage or were used for both purposes.
  The basic construction is beehive shaped and is made of bent wood of either willow or hazel, and it is quite heavy and unfeminine.
  One shoe and a boot were uncovered during work on the building, which also revealed a beehive oven and fire hole that experts believe are part of an even older house on the site.
  Or head to the Six Senses Earth Spa, a cluster of beehive domed, ochre-walled treatment rooms.
  The kitchen, with an open log fire at one end, is well equipped and once a year she holds cooking classes and through the windows wafts the smell of tortillas being baked in the terracotta beehive ovens.
  If we want something slightly more permanent then we could make a beehive composter out of wooden layers that fit together and can be added and subtracted at will.
  They nevertheless abandoned them about 20-25 years ago for rectangular mud-brick, thatch-roofed cottages, relegating the beehive houses to storage purposes.
  Sheltered in their beehive huts, ringed around a tiny church and graveyard, they survived for centuries in one of the most inhospitable environments imaginable.
  ‘Then I'll sweep the back hallway,’ Alexia promised, deftly sliding the loaves into the waiting beehive oven.
  It was now early afternoon, we had reached the beehive huts and the Blaskets were coming into view.
  The place was dotted with the corbel-vaulted beehive huts of the prehistoric inhabitants.
  Whole ears of fresh blue corn are baked in their traditional outdoor beehive ovens for 15 minutes or so and then eaten warm.
  The bus pulls into a massive parking lot, shadowed by yet more of the beehive apartment buildings, the surrounding hills actually covered in trees.
  The fifth hole has so many beehive bunkers on it, it looks as if it was built through a geyser field in Yellowstone National Park.
  Limestone seating is used in the steam room, and the private treatment rooms are designed to resemble monks' beehive cells.
  Through the windows wafts the smell of tortillas being baked in the terracotta beehive ovens as she serves me coffee grown from her own beans and talks about her never-ending wonder and curiosity for Mexico.
  Bells were made either from folding a sheet of iron or bronze into a square or round beehive shape and fixing it with rivets, or by casting a similar shape in bronze.
2. 1.2
  another term for Praesepe
2A woman's domed and lacquered hairstyle popular in the 1960s.
蜂窝式发型（盛行于20世纪60年代的女式发型，将头发盘于头顶上，用定型液定型）
Example sentencesExamples
- I'm like those women who discovered beehives and winkle-pickers back in the 1950s and still sport them today.
- They wore sleek hairstyles, or things called beehives; they were poised, ageless and grown-up, and they had nothing, nothing to do with me or the likes of me.
- ‘Oh, hello sweetie,’ my mother greets me, her 6ft blonde beehive swaying ominously, and her bubblegum pink sweater cut too low to be legal.
- I can't believe any of those people actually went out in public places with those bouffants and beehives!
- Although she followed this with hit after hit, she was desperately insecure and hid herself under thick make-up and a beehive hairdo.
- Never mind if they end up creating beehives, poodle-cuts and frizzies on their heads.
- Nothing is out of the ordinary when my lime green beehive tops an olive green and white suit.
- Together with the colourful fifties style costumes - all beehive hairdos and swirly skirts - it perfectly evokes the mood of that era.
- Casey couldn't see what they lady was doing; she was hidden behind a counter, only the top of a beehive hair style showing.
- At the house, the groom meets the bride - her hair lacquered into an enormous beehive, a spray of pearls emerging from one side of it, six roses from the other.
- Henry entered the classroom five minutes late, her beehive hair-do looking especially tight that afternoon.
- It was where, as a teenager, he saw the fairground showmen set up camp with waltzers, dodgems and swingboats, bringing the promise of a merry-go-round of girls with beehive hairdos and stiletto heels.
- Despite the brash blonde beehive and penchant for attention-seeking clothes and make-up, there's no way you could mistake Jenny for an airhead - which must make her choice of title for the new show ironic.
- The sign above the restaurant showed a smiling waitress with a beehive hairdo.
- The schoolgirls are now matrons, who venture out in their beehives to shop in the Women's Bazaar.
- You know, Diary, Priscilla is a pretty girl, but I'd bet she'd look really great with a 16-inch beehive and about four pounds of makeup.
- Shirley was alone, her beehive frizzed and singed.
- His aide's balding head surfaced just behind Tina, bobbing up and down as he tried to see over her latest hairdo, a beehive laced with glittering red-and-green honeybees.
- A slim Farideh pouts at the lens, her skirt several inches shy of the knee, her black beehive dropping teased curls on her brow while beside her a smooth-necked Hussain seems filled with confidence of the future.
- Then it was sprayed into a solid beehive or bouffant helmet that sometimes flowed into curls, waves or a tight flip at the ends.

Derivatives

beehived

adjectiveˈbiːhʌɪvdˈbiˌhaɪvd

(of a woman) wearing a domed and lacquered hairstyle popularized in the 1960s.
蜂窝式发型（盛行于20世纪60年代的女式发型，将头发盘于头顶上，用定型液定型）
the beehived singer Amy Winehouse
Example sentencesExamples
- She went as a sixties ‘chick'. Y'know the kind of thing, black and white mini-dress with keyhole, long hair slightly beehived, knee-length boots etc.
- He then got stuffed into a sequinned baby-suit and was made to dance for middle-aged businessmen and their beehived wives.
- When the beehived percussionist moves one fist around in a circle, wooden baton pointed skyward, she looks less like a heavy-metal majorette and more like she needs to stir her way out of a giant vat of pudding.

Definition of beehive in US English:

beehive

nounˈbiˌhaɪvˈbēˌhīv

1A dome-shaped or boxlike structure in which bees are kept.
Example sentencesExamples
- The highlight of the garden party was that an angry swarm of bees, whose beehive had been disturbed by accident, swooped down on the assembled guests.
- Mr Britton kept beehives in his garden and sold honey from the gate.
- Other plans include flower beds, organic vegetable plots, beehives and a seating area.
- When Geoff Manning was given three beehives to care for as a young man he never imagined it would become a life-long passion.
- When it is in bloom, the honey gathered from the beehives in the vicinity was valued highly.
- A few years ago the Honey Lady had tens of active beehives.
- In yet another, carpenters using modern hand tools are making beehives.
- The farm consists of an area of fruit trees interplanted with annual vegetables, a mixed orchard of fruit trees with rows of beehives between the trees, 5 hectares of pasture, three hectares of wheat and a plantation of native pines.
- I have very clear memories of the family, their beehives and garden.
- At their detached home on the edge of the village, Mrs Britton enjoyed tending the garden, where Mr Britton kept beehives.
- Closer by, the route passes some super old farmyards and barns, one has recesses for beehives.
- However, the ideal places for establishing bee colonies were locations where the farm pesticide use was low, and where there were several beehives in the wild.
- Her grandfather was a successful farmer who owned potato fields, beehives, and a few head of cattle.
- The first sweet treat that humans indulged in was most likely honey from beehives.
- Similarly, honey is extracted from beehives maintained by the members.
- However, the honey must come from local beehives.
- Think about the concentric pattern of honey, pollen, and brood that arises on the honey combs of a beehive.
- The good boy's father was a beekeeper, so one evening our bold hero went down to his father's beehives with a large jam jar and collected a jar full of Drone bees.
- Wrapped in this parcel of frivolity is the arrival of the Kaani tribes from Papanasam who amused them by demonstrating the extraction of honey from the beehive and talking plain about their lifestyle.
- When he came in here, he knocked down a beehive and sent the bees flying all over.
1. 1.1usually as modifier Something having the domed shape of a traditional beehive.
  穹顶，圆顶
  beehive huts
  圆顶小屋。
  beehive ovens
  Example sentencesExamples
  The place was dotted with the corbel-vaulted beehive huts of the prehistoric inhabitants.
  It was now early afternoon, we had reached the beehive huts and the Blaskets were coming into view.
  Bells were made either from folding a sheet of iron or bronze into a square or round beehive shape and fixing it with rivets, or by casting a similar shape in bronze.
  The bus pulls into a massive parking lot, shadowed by yet more of the beehive apartment buildings, the surrounding hills actually covered in trees.
  They nevertheless abandoned them about 20-25 years ago for rectangular mud-brick, thatch-roofed cottages, relegating the beehive houses to storage purposes.
  The kitchen, with an open log fire at one end, is well equipped and once a year she holds cooking classes and through the windows wafts the smell of tortillas being baked in the terracotta beehive ovens.
  One shoe and a boot were uncovered during work on the building, which also revealed a beehive oven and fire hole that experts believe are part of an even older house on the site.
  Or head to the Six Senses Earth Spa, a cluster of beehive domed, ochre-walled treatment rooms.
  Sheltered in their beehive huts, ringed around a tiny church and graveyard, they survived for centuries in one of the most inhospitable environments imaginable.
  Whole ears of fresh blue corn are baked in their traditional outdoor beehive ovens for 15 minutes or so and then eaten warm.
  ‘Then I'll sweep the back hallway,’ Alexia promised, deftly sliding the loaves into the waiting beehive oven.
  The fifth hole has so many beehive bunkers on it, it looks as if it was built through a geyser field in Yellowstone National Park.
  Limestone seating is used in the steam room, and the private treatment rooms are designed to resemble monks' beehive cells.
  The basic construction is beehive shaped and is made of bent wood of either willow or hazel, and it is quite heavy and unfeminine.
  It is understood that the underground passages and beehive shaped chamber were constructed as hiding places or as places of storage or were used for both purposes.
  Through the windows wafts the smell of tortillas being baked in the terracotta beehive ovens as she serves me coffee grown from her own beans and talks about her never-ending wonder and curiosity for Mexico.
  If we want something slightly more permanent then we could make a beehive composter out of wooden layers that fit together and can be added and subtracted at will.
2. 1.2the Beehive
  another term for Praesepe
3. 1.3 A busy, crowded place.
  繁忙拥挤的地方
  the church became a beehive of activity
  教堂像蜂窝一样繁忙、拥挤。
  Example sentencesExamples
  As the World Cup entered the crucial stage, the popular pub turned a beehive for soccer fans.
  Well into the day, the kitchen was a beehive of activity with figures in white bustling about chopping, cutting and racing against time.
  Leo entered the hall an hour and half after the winds had forced him inside and saw, as he had expected, that the room was a beehive of activity.
  Since the beginning of March, the Alliance has been a beehive of activities ranging from a photo exhibition, a translation workshop and a competition to test fluency in French.
  During daytime, the narrow passages, which accommodate provision stores, vegetable outlets and shops dealing in spices and condiments, are a beehive of activity.
  Early on the day of the event, the house becomes a beehive of activity.
  But each time is still cause for hectic work schedules and adjusting to seeing the quaint, quiet community transformed into a beehive of activity.
  Jasmine turned to the rest of their group, who were gossiping non-stop, resembling something along the lines of a busy beehive.
  The music department is amazing and impressive; students everywhere, tantalizing music coming out of offices and practice rooms on every floor of what seems like an ever-humming beehive.
  At weekends and on holidays, the kitchens at ethnic restaurants are beehives of frenetic activity.
  Lab is soooo much better when it's just lab, and less of a busy beehive.
  Cate descended the staircase into a beehive of activity.
  The city, usually a busy place became a beehive of activity.
  By then the ‘secret’ locality was known to a few other collectors, and the site was a beehive of activity.
  The area in and around the monument is already a beehive of activity.
  The normally sleepy hall becomes a beehive of activity during a council meeting.
  The chess club, music school, film circle, Russian speakers' forum, drama club, the library and the reading room have been revived after almost a decade and the centre has once again become a beehive of activity.
  Located in the eastern part of the city on a once dry and desolate vast piece of land, today it is a fascinating beehive of activities, the dreariness having given place to eye catching greenery and multiple activities.
  Behind the scenes, the interview room was also a beehive of activity.
  Today, it is a beehive of activity, trade, fishermen and villagers, amidst the scenic beauty.
2A woman's domed and lacquered hairstyle popular in the 1960s.
蜂窝式发型（盛行于20世纪60年代的女式发型，将头发盘于头顶上，用定型液定型）
Example sentencesExamples
- Although she followed this with hit after hit, she was desperately insecure and hid herself under thick make-up and a beehive hairdo.
- ‘Oh, hello sweetie,’ my mother greets me, her 6ft blonde beehive swaying ominously, and her bubblegum pink sweater cut too low to be legal.
- Henry entered the classroom five minutes late, her beehive hair-do looking especially tight that afternoon.
- They wore sleek hairstyles, or things called beehives; they were poised, ageless and grown-up, and they had nothing, nothing to do with me or the likes of me.
- Casey couldn't see what they lady was doing; she was hidden behind a counter, only the top of a beehive hair style showing.
- At the house, the groom meets the bride - her hair lacquered into an enormous beehive, a spray of pearls emerging from one side of it, six roses from the other.
- You know, Diary, Priscilla is a pretty girl, but I'd bet she'd look really great with a 16-inch beehive and about four pounds of makeup.
- Despite the brash blonde beehive and penchant for attention-seeking clothes and make-up, there's no way you could mistake Jenny for an airhead - which must make her choice of title for the new show ironic.
- His aide's balding head surfaced just behind Tina, bobbing up and down as he tried to see over her latest hairdo, a beehive laced with glittering red-and-green honeybees.
- The schoolgirls are now matrons, who venture out in their beehives to shop in the Women's Bazaar.
- It was where, as a teenager, he saw the fairground showmen set up camp with waltzers, dodgems and swingboats, bringing the promise of a merry-go-round of girls with beehive hairdos and stiletto heels.
- Nothing is out of the ordinary when my lime green beehive tops an olive green and white suit.
- I'm like those women who discovered beehives and winkle-pickers back in the 1950s and still sport them today.
- Never mind if they end up creating beehives, poodle-cuts and frizzies on their heads.
- Then it was sprayed into a solid beehive or bouffant helmet that sometimes flowed into curls, waves or a tight flip at the ends.
- Shirley was alone, her beehive frizzed and singed.
- The sign above the restaurant showed a smiling waitress with a beehive hairdo.
- A slim Farideh pouts at the lens, her skirt several inches shy of the knee, her black beehive dropping teased curls on her brow while beside her a smooth-necked Hussain seems filled with confidence of the future.
- I can't believe any of those people actually went out in public places with those bouffants and beehives!
- Together with the colourful fifties style costumes - all beehive hairdos and swirly skirts - it perfectly evokes the mood of that era.

词汇	beehive
释义	Definition of beehive in English: beehive noun ˈbiːhʌɪvˈbiˌhaɪv 1A dome-shaped or boxlike structure in which bees are kept. Example sentencesExamples Similarly, honey is extracted from beehives maintained by the members. Other plans include flower beds, organic vegetable plots, beehives and a seating area. Her grandfather was a successful farmer who owned potato fields, beehives, and a few head of cattle. However, the ideal places for establishing bee colonies were locations where the farm pesticide use was low, and where there were several beehives in the wild. When Geoff Manning was given three beehives to care for as a young man he never imagined it would become a life-long passion. Mr Britton kept beehives in his garden and sold honey from the gate. Think about the concentric pattern of honey, pollen, and brood that arises on the honey combs of a beehive. At their detached home on the edge of the village, Mrs Britton enjoyed tending the garden, where Mr Britton kept beehives. The good boy's father was a beekeeper, so one evening our bold hero went down to his father's beehives with a large jam jar and collected a jar full of Drone bees. When it is in bloom, the honey gathered from the beehives in the vicinity was valued highly. I have very clear memories of the family, their beehives and garden. Closer by, the route passes some super old farmyards and barns, one has recesses for beehives. When he came in here, he knocked down a beehive and sent the bees flying all over. A few years ago the Honey Lady had tens of active beehives. The farm consists of an area of fruit trees interplanted with annual vegetables, a mixed orchard of fruit trees with rows of beehives between the trees, 5 hectares of pasture, three hectares of wheat and a plantation of native pines. The highlight of the garden party was that an angry swarm of bees, whose beehive had been disturbed by accident, swooped down on the assembled guests. In yet another, carpenters using modern hand tools are making beehives. The first sweet treat that humans indulged in was most likely honey from beehives. Wrapped in this parcel of frivolity is the arrival of the Kaani tribes from Papanasam who amused them by demonstrating the extraction of honey from the beehive and talking plain about their lifestyle. However, the honey must come from local beehives. 1.1usually as modifier Something having the domed shape of a traditional beehive. 穹顶，圆顶 a beehive hut 圆顶小屋。 Example sentencesExamples It is understood that the underground passages and beehive shaped chamber were constructed as hiding places or as places of storage or were used for both purposes. The basic construction is beehive shaped and is made of bent wood of either willow or hazel, and it is quite heavy and unfeminine. One shoe and a boot were uncovered during work on the building, which also revealed a beehive oven and fire hole that experts believe are part of an even older house on the site. Or head to the Six Senses Earth Spa, a cluster of beehive domed, ochre-walled treatment rooms. The kitchen, with an open log fire at one end, is well equipped and once a year she holds cooking classes and through the windows wafts the smell of tortillas being baked in the terracotta beehive ovens. If we want something slightly more permanent then we could make a beehive composter out of wooden layers that fit together and can be added and subtracted at will. They nevertheless abandoned them about 20-25 years ago for rectangular mud-brick, thatch-roofed cottages, relegating the beehive houses to storage purposes. Sheltered in their beehive huts, ringed around a tiny church and graveyard, they survived for centuries in one of the most inhospitable environments imaginable. ‘Then I'll sweep the back hallway,’ Alexia promised, deftly sliding the loaves into the waiting beehive oven. It was now early afternoon, we had reached the beehive huts and the Blaskets were coming into view. The place was dotted with the corbel-vaulted beehive huts of the prehistoric inhabitants. Whole ears of fresh blue corn are baked in their traditional outdoor beehive ovens for 15 minutes or so and then eaten warm. The bus pulls into a massive parking lot, shadowed by yet more of the beehive apartment buildings, the surrounding hills actually covered in trees. The fifth hole has so many beehive bunkers on it, it looks as if it was built through a geyser field in Yellowstone National Park. Limestone seating is used in the steam room, and the private treatment rooms are designed to resemble monks' beehive cells. Through the windows wafts the smell of tortillas being baked in the terracotta beehive ovens as she serves me coffee grown from her own beans and talks about her never-ending wonder and curiosity for Mexico. Bells were made either from folding a sheet of iron or bronze into a square or round beehive shape and fixing it with rivets, or by casting a similar shape in bronze. 1.2 another term for Praesepe 2A woman's domed and lacquered hairstyle popular in the 1960s. 蜂窝式发型（盛行于20世纪60年代的女式发型，将头发盘于头顶上，用定型液定型） Example sentencesExamples I'm like those women who discovered beehives and winkle-pickers back in the 1950s and still sport them today. They wore sleek hairstyles, or things called beehives; they were poised, ageless and grown-up, and they had nothing, nothing to do with me or the likes of me. ‘Oh, hello sweetie,’ my mother greets me, her 6ft blonde beehive swaying ominously, and her bubblegum pink sweater cut too low to be legal. I can't believe any of those people actually went out in public places with those bouffants and beehives! Although she followed this with hit after hit, she was desperately insecure and hid herself under thick make-up and a beehive hairdo. Never mind if they end up creating beehives, poodle-cuts and frizzies on their heads. Nothing is out of the ordinary when my lime green beehive tops an olive green and white suit. Together with the colourful fifties style costumes - all beehive hairdos and swirly skirts - it perfectly evokes the mood of that era. Casey couldn't see what they lady was doing; she was hidden behind a counter, only the top of a beehive hair style showing. At the house, the groom meets the bride - her hair lacquered into an enormous beehive, a spray of pearls emerging from one side of it, six roses from the other. Henry entered the classroom five minutes late, her beehive hair-do looking especially tight that afternoon. It was where, as a teenager, he saw the fairground showmen set up camp with waltzers, dodgems and swingboats, bringing the promise of a merry-go-round of girls with beehive hairdos and stiletto heels. Despite the brash blonde beehive and penchant for attention-seeking clothes and make-up, there's no way you could mistake Jenny for an airhead - which must make her choice of title for the new show ironic. The sign above the restaurant showed a smiling waitress with a beehive hairdo. The schoolgirls are now matrons, who venture out in their beehives to shop in the Women's Bazaar. You know, Diary, Priscilla is a pretty girl, but I'd bet she'd look really great with a 16-inch beehive and about four pounds of makeup. Shirley was alone, her beehive frizzed and singed. His aide's balding head surfaced just behind Tina, bobbing up and down as he tried to see over her latest hairdo, a beehive laced with glittering red-and-green honeybees. A slim Farideh pouts at the lens, her skirt several inches shy of the knee, her black beehive dropping teased curls on her brow while beside her a smooth-necked Hussain seems filled with confidence of the future. Then it was sprayed into a solid beehive or bouffant helmet that sometimes flowed into curls, waves or a tight flip at the ends. Derivatives beehived adjectiveˈbiːhʌɪvdˈbiˌhaɪvd (of a woman) wearing a domed and lacquered hairstyle popularized in the 1960s. 蜂窝式发型（盛行于20世纪60年代的女式发型，将头发盘于头顶上，用定型液定型） the beehived singer Amy Winehouse Example sentencesExamples She went as a sixties ‘chick'. Y'know the kind of thing, black and white mini-dress with keyhole, long hair slightly beehived, knee-length boots etc. He then got stuffed into a sequinned baby-suit and was made to dance for middle-aged businessmen and their beehived wives. When the beehived percussionist moves one fist around in a circle, wooden baton pointed skyward, she looks less like a heavy-metal majorette and more like she needs to stir her way out of a giant vat of pudding. Definition of beehive in US English: beehive nounˈbiˌhaɪvˈbēˌhīv 1A dome-shaped or boxlike structure in which bees are kept. Example sentencesExamples The highlight of the garden party was that an angry swarm of bees, whose beehive had been disturbed by accident, swooped down on the assembled guests. Mr Britton kept beehives in his garden and sold honey from the gate. Other plans include flower beds, organic vegetable plots, beehives and a seating area. When Geoff Manning was given three beehives to care for as a young man he never imagined it would become a life-long passion. When it is in bloom, the honey gathered from the beehives in the vicinity was valued highly. A few years ago the Honey Lady had tens of active beehives. In yet another, carpenters using modern hand tools are making beehives. The farm consists of an area of fruit trees interplanted with annual vegetables, a mixed orchard of fruit trees with rows of beehives between the trees, 5 hectares of pasture, three hectares of wheat and a plantation of native pines. I have very clear memories of the family, their beehives and garden. At their detached home on the edge of the village, Mrs Britton enjoyed tending the garden, where Mr Britton kept beehives. Closer by, the route passes some super old farmyards and barns, one has recesses for beehives. However, the ideal places for establishing bee colonies were locations where the farm pesticide use was low, and where there were several beehives in the wild. Her grandfather was a successful farmer who owned potato fields, beehives, and a few head of cattle. The first sweet treat that humans indulged in was most likely honey from beehives. Similarly, honey is extracted from beehives maintained by the members. However, the honey must come from local beehives. Think about the concentric pattern of honey, pollen, and brood that arises on the honey combs of a beehive. The good boy's father was a beekeeper, so one evening our bold hero went down to his father's beehives with a large jam jar and collected a jar full of Drone bees. Wrapped in this parcel of frivolity is the arrival of the Kaani tribes from Papanasam who amused them by demonstrating the extraction of honey from the beehive and talking plain about their lifestyle. When he came in here, he knocked down a beehive and sent the bees flying all over. 1.1usually as modifier Something having the domed shape of a traditional beehive. 穹顶，圆顶 beehive huts 圆顶小屋。 beehive ovens Example sentencesExamples The place was dotted with the corbel-vaulted beehive huts of the prehistoric inhabitants. It was now early afternoon, we had reached the beehive huts and the Blaskets were coming into view. Bells were made either from folding a sheet of iron or bronze into a square or round beehive shape and fixing it with rivets, or by casting a similar shape in bronze. The bus pulls into a massive parking lot, shadowed by yet more of the beehive apartment buildings, the surrounding hills actually covered in trees. They nevertheless abandoned them about 20-25 years ago for rectangular mud-brick, thatch-roofed cottages, relegating the beehive houses to storage purposes. The kitchen, with an open log fire at one end, is well equipped and once a year she holds cooking classes and through the windows wafts the smell of tortillas being baked in the terracotta beehive ovens. One shoe and a boot were uncovered during work on the building, which also revealed a beehive oven and fire hole that experts believe are part of an even older house on the site. Or head to the Six Senses Earth Spa, a cluster of beehive domed, ochre-walled treatment rooms. Sheltered in their beehive huts, ringed around a tiny church and graveyard, they survived for centuries in one of the most inhospitable environments imaginable. Whole ears of fresh blue corn are baked in their traditional outdoor beehive ovens for 15 minutes or so and then eaten warm. ‘Then I'll sweep the back hallway,’ Alexia promised, deftly sliding the loaves into the waiting beehive oven. The fifth hole has so many beehive bunkers on it, it looks as if it was built through a geyser field in Yellowstone National Park. Limestone seating is used in the steam room, and the private treatment rooms are designed to resemble monks' beehive cells. The basic construction is beehive shaped and is made of bent wood of either willow or hazel, and it is quite heavy and unfeminine. It is understood that the underground passages and beehive shaped chamber were constructed as hiding places or as places of storage or were used for both purposes. Through the windows wafts the smell of tortillas being baked in the terracotta beehive ovens as she serves me coffee grown from her own beans and talks about her never-ending wonder and curiosity for Mexico. If we want something slightly more permanent then we could make a beehive composter out of wooden layers that fit together and can be added and subtracted at will. 1.2the Beehive another term for Praesepe 1.3 A busy, crowded place. 繁忙拥挤的地方 the church became a beehive of activity 教堂像蜂窝一样繁忙、拥挤。 Example sentencesExamples As the World Cup entered the crucial stage, the popular pub turned a beehive for soccer fans. Well into the day, the kitchen was a beehive of activity with figures in white bustling about chopping, cutting and racing against time. Leo entered the hall an hour and half after the winds had forced him inside and saw, as he had expected, that the room was a beehive of activity. Since the beginning of March, the Alliance has been a beehive of activities ranging from a photo exhibition, a translation workshop and a competition to test fluency in French. During daytime, the narrow passages, which accommodate provision stores, vegetable outlets and shops dealing in spices and condiments, are a beehive of activity. Early on the day of the event, the house becomes a beehive of activity. But each time is still cause for hectic work schedules and adjusting to seeing the quaint, quiet community transformed into a beehive of activity. Jasmine turned to the rest of their group, who were gossiping non-stop, resembling something along the lines of a busy beehive. The music department is amazing and impressive; students everywhere, tantalizing music coming out of offices and practice rooms on every floor of what seems like an ever-humming beehive. At weekends and on holidays, the kitchens at ethnic restaurants are beehives of frenetic activity. Lab is soooo much better when it's just lab, and less of a busy beehive. Cate descended the staircase into a beehive of activity. The city, usually a busy place became a beehive of activity. By then the ‘secret’ locality was known to a few other collectors, and the site was a beehive of activity. The area in and around the monument is already a beehive of activity. The normally sleepy hall becomes a beehive of activity during a council meeting. The chess club, music school, film circle, Russian speakers' forum, drama club, the library and the reading room have been revived after almost a decade and the centre has once again become a beehive of activity. Located in the eastern part of the city on a once dry and desolate vast piece of land, today it is a fascinating beehive of activities, the dreariness having given place to eye catching greenery and multiple activities. Behind the scenes, the interview room was also a beehive of activity. Today, it is a beehive of activity, trade, fishermen and villagers, amidst the scenic beauty. 2A woman's domed and lacquered hairstyle popular in the 1960s. 蜂窝式发型（盛行于20世纪60年代的女式发型，将头发盘于头顶上，用定型液定型） Example sentencesExamples Although she followed this with hit after hit, she was desperately insecure and hid herself under thick make-up and a beehive hairdo. ‘Oh, hello sweetie,’ my mother greets me, her 6ft blonde beehive swaying ominously, and her bubblegum pink sweater cut too low to be legal. Henry entered the classroom five minutes late, her beehive hair-do looking especially tight that afternoon. They wore sleek hairstyles, or things called beehives; they were poised, ageless and grown-up, and they had nothing, nothing to do with me or the likes of me. Casey couldn't see what they lady was doing; she was hidden behind a counter, only the top of a beehive hair style showing. At the house, the groom meets the bride - her hair lacquered into an enormous beehive, a spray of pearls emerging from one side of it, six roses from the other. You know, Diary, Priscilla is a pretty girl, but I'd bet she'd look really great with a 16-inch beehive and about four pounds of makeup. Despite the brash blonde beehive and penchant for attention-seeking clothes and make-up, there's no way you could mistake Jenny for an airhead - which must make her choice of title for the new show ironic. His aide's balding head surfaced just behind Tina, bobbing up and down as he tried to see over her latest hairdo, a beehive laced with glittering red-and-green honeybees. The schoolgirls are now matrons, who venture out in their beehives to shop in the Women's Bazaar. It was where, as a teenager, he saw the fairground showmen set up camp with waltzers, dodgems and swingboats, bringing the promise of a merry-go-round of girls with beehive hairdos and stiletto heels. Nothing is out of the ordinary when my lime green beehive tops an olive green and white suit. I'm like those women who discovered beehives and winkle-pickers back in the 1950s and still sport them today. Never mind if they end up creating beehives, poodle-cuts and frizzies on their heads. Then it was sprayed into a solid beehive or bouffant helmet that sometimes flowed into curls, waves or a tight flip at the ends. Shirley was alone, her beehive frizzed and singed. The sign above the restaurant showed a smiling waitress with a beehive hairdo. A slim Farideh pouts at the lens, her skirt several inches shy of the knee, her black beehive dropping teased curls on her brow while beside her a smooth-necked Hussain seems filled with confidence of the future. I can't believe any of those people actually went out in public places with those bouffants and beehives! Together with the colourful fifties style costumes - all beehive hairdos and swirly skirts - it perfectly evokes the mood of that era.
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