Cacoon vs Beehive - What's the difference?
cacoon | beehive |
The bean-like seed of a tropical vine (Entada rheedii ), used as a hallucinogen and in traditional medicine, and made into jewelry.
(Webster 1913)
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 cacoon and beehive
is that cacoon is the bean-like seed of a tropical vine (entada rheedii ), used as a hallucinogen and in traditional medicine, and made into jewelry while beehive is (mormonism) a 12-13 year old participant in the young women organization of the lds church.As a proper noun beehive is
(new zealand) the common name for the executive wing of the new zealand parliament buildings.cacoon
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(en noun)beehive
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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.