(n.) A place where bees are kept; a stand or shed for bees; a beehouse.
Example Sentences:
(1) The increased absolute volume of material expenditures (chiefly therapeutic agents) is reflected in the absolute and the relative growth in the end-product economic results obtained with the two apiaries studied.
(2) The incidence was higher with samples taken from drums (18%) and from apiaries (23%) than marketing honey (5%).
(3) Although neotropical European apiary populations are rapidly Africanized by mating with neotropical African males, there is little reciprocal gene flow to the neotropical African population through European females.
(4) Previous mitochondrial DNA studies of neotropical bees have revealed negligible maternal gene flow from managed European apiaries into feral African populations.
(5) In England and Wales, a similar level of bee mortality was recorded as in Scotland and for the same reasons, but here no fund was available to help bee farmers buy new bees to restock their apiaries.
(6) One hundred and fifty two samples of honey were purchased from apiaries and markets in Taiwan, meanwhile fifty samples of infant food including powders of infant milk, wheat, rice and commercial mixed cereals, as well as juice had been bought from supermarkets in Taipei city from July 1988 through April 1989.
(7) Each year Wieske's apiary, Green Toe Gardens, produces about 3,000lb of honey and sells it in local Detroit markets.
Apiculture
Definition:
(n.) Rearing of bees for their honey and wax.
Example Sentences:
(1) Type A, B and C spores were detected in three of 56 samples of sugar for apiculture, which may attest the significance of bee-feed as a source of contamination of honey.
(2) involving the hawk week Hieracium up to about 1873), vegetable and fruit tree horticulture, apiculture, and agriculture in general.