What is the difference between apis and beehive?
apis | beehive |
An enclosed structure in which some species of honey bees (genus Apis ) live and raise their young.
A man-made structure in which bees are kept for their honey.
(figuratively) Any place full of activity, or in which people are very busy.
A women's hairstyle, popular in the 1960s, in which long hair is styled into a hive-shaped form on top of the head and usually held in place with lacquer. Also, a style of hat.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword A type of anti-personnel ammunition round containing flechettes, and characterised by the buzzing sound made as they fly through the air.
* 2005 , Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home (Simon & Schuster 2005, page 179)
As nouns the difference between apis and beehive
is that apis is while beehive is an enclosed structure in which some species of honey bees (genus apis ) live and raise their young.beehive
English
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(en noun)citation, passage=A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,
- By the time it was over, Stone had been blown thirty feet through the air by a beehive round as he was running across a field, knocked out by the concussion of the blast.