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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beehive/#m1)

2) A hairstyle piled high on the head. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beehive/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beehive/#x1)
- There are thousands of bees in one beehive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beehive/#x2)
- Honey is stored in the beehive in wax cells. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beehive/#x3)
- The classroom was as busy as a beehive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beehive/#x4)
- Do not poke a beehive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beehive/#x5)
- Her grandmother once wore her hair in a beehive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beehive/#x6)
- ‘In my youth, when I was an old man, we had a quantity of beehives. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beehive/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice/5/)
- [A beehive on a summer day is a city of about 50,000 bees, and every bee in it has a job.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/239-bees-the-waggle-dance-the-hive-and-honey/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «beehive» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beehive/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.