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noun 
  1. A structure or receptacle, typically made of straw, forming the home of bees.
  2. A similar man-made structure in which bees are kept for their honey.
  3. (figuratively) Any place full of activity, or in which people are very busy.
  4. 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.
  5. A type of ammunition round containing flechettes, and characterised by the buzzing sound made as they fly through the air.
    • 2005: By the time it was over, Stone had been blown thirty feet through the air by a round as he was running across a field, knocked out by the concussion of the blast. " Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home (Simon & Schuster 2005, p. 179)
      1. The Beehive: the New Zealand Government
Translations: 
  • French: ruche
    (trans-mid)
  • German: Bienenstock , Bienenkorb
  • Dutch: bijenkorf
Etymology: From bee + hive.


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