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noun
- A structure or receptacle, typically made of straw, forming the home of bees.
- A similar man-made structure in which bees are kept for their honey.
- (figuratively) Any place full of activity, or in which people are very busy.
- 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.
- A type of ammunition round containing flechettes, and characterised by the buzzing sound made as they fly through the air.
- 2005: By the time it was over, Stone had been blown thirty feet through the air by a round as he was running across a field, knocked out by the concussion of the blast. " Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home (Simon & Schuster 2005, p. 179)
- The Beehive: the New Zealand Government
Translations: - French: ruche
(trans-mid)
- German: Bienenstock , Bienenkorb
- Dutch: bijenkorf
Etymology: From bee + hive.
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