hive
蜂巢,蜂房,蜂箱,蜂巢式
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- : a shelter constructed for housing a colony of honeybees; beehive.
- : the colony of bees inhabiting a hive.
- : something resembling a beehive in structure or use.
- : a place swarming with busy occupants: a hive of industry.
- : a swarming or teeming multitude.
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hived, hiv·ing.
- : to gather into or cause to enter a hive.
- : to shelter as in a hive.
- : to store up in a hive.
- : to store or lay away for future use or enjoyment.
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hived, hiv·ing.
- : to enter a hive.
- : to live together in or as in a hive.
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- : hive off, British. to become transferred from the main body of a commercial or industrial enterprise through the agency of new ownership.
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Not just the bees’ wings and bodies but also the structure of their hive.
A hatched queen might wander around the hive tooting for several days.
Bencsik and his team didn’t see this happening because they were tracking the bees from outside the hive.
The researchers pressed vibration detectors into the beeswax of one frame from each hive.
This happens when worker bees abandon their hive, eventually causing the hive to die.
The drones, as it were, had to rest at their stations, constantly maintaining the hive for the greater good.
When Ali Salameh arrived at Black September headquarters in Beirut, he found a hive of furious activity.
Since the mid-19th century, Sicily has been known as a hive of Mafioso activity.
This conservative, evangelical megachurch, just outside San Diego, is a hive of activity on a Sunday morning.
Burt called on his beekeeper pal, who scooped up the bees from the fencepost with his bare hands, and dumped them into a hive.
Hunis versified the whole book of Genesis, calling it a hive full of honey.
The bee, the most communal in habit, shows the highest traits of intelligent activity.