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Beehive vs Termitarium - What's the difference?

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Beehive is a coordinate term of termitarium.


As nouns the difference between beehive and termitarium

is that beehive is (mormonism) a 12-13 year old participant in the young women organization of the lds church while termitarium is a termite colony.

As a proper noun beehive

is (new zealand) the common name for the executive wing of the new zealand parliament buildings.

beehive

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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 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, 
  • 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)
    • 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.

    Synonyms

    * (home of bees ): hive * (man-made structure ): hive * (busy workplace ): hive of activity * (hairstyle ):

    Related terms

    * bee * hive

    See also

    * apiary * beekeeper * skep * *

    termitarium

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A termite colony.
  • * 2002 , Frank N. Young, Jr. & Gene Kritsky, A Survey of Entomology , Writers Club Press (2002), ISBN 9780595221431, page 163:
    • When an opening is made in a termitarium , soldiers crowd into the breach, and either stop the invaders or fill the breach with their termite dead.
  • * 2010 , P. J. Gullan & P.S. Cranston, The Insects: An Outline of Entomology , Wiley-Blackwell (2010), ISBN 9781444330366, page 332:
    • The females are winged, but shed all but the stumps of the anterior veins after mating, before entering the termitarium .
  • * 2012 , Paul Stenner, "Pattern", in Inventive Methods: The Happening of the Social (eds. Celia Lury & Nina Wakeford), Routledge (2012), ISBN 9780415574815, page 137:
    • Likewise, given time, the initially rather random clay-gathering activity of termites results in a colossal termitarium , thanks to simple innate inclinations such as the preference to deposit one's ball of clay on larger balls of clay.

    Coordinate terms

    * anthill, beehive, vespiary