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# beehive

noun (a beehive, beehives)

«beehive» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A box or other structure where bees live and make honey. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beehive/#m1)
2. A hairstyle piled high on the head. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beehive/#m2)

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beehive/#x1)
- There are thousands of bees in one beehive. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beehive/#x2)
- Honey is stored in the beehive in wax cells. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beehive/#x3)
- The classroom was as busy as a beehive. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beehive/#x4)
- Do not poke a beehive. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beehive/#x5)
- Her grandmother once wore her hair in a beehive. [tree →](https://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://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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «beehive» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beehive/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«beehive» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/beehive.html) on Mova free.