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beehive (iou)



beehive noun. ME.
[from BEE noun1 + HIVE noun.]
An artificial habitation for bees, traditionally of thick straw work in the shape of a dome, but now usu. a wooden box containing the combs on wooden slides. ME.
b. fig. A busy place etc. E17.
the Beehive, (the name of) a star-cluster in the constellation Cancer. Also called Praesepe. M19.
A hat or hairstyle having the shape of a traditional beehive. E20.
Comb.: beehive-hat a hat shaped like a traditional beehive; beehive tomb a dome-shaped tomb cut into a hillside, distinctive of Mycenaean Greece.