Beehive
51beehive tomb — noun : a tomb shaped like a beehive cut in a hillside and usually approached by a horizontal passage, distinctive of the Mycenaean age in Greece * * * a type of subterranean tomb of the Mycenaean civilization consisting of a domed chamber entered …
52Beehive shelf — A beehive shelf is a piece of laboratory equipment which is primarily used in chemistry to support a gas jar while a gas is being collected over water, using a pneumatic trough …
53Beehive-hut — Bienenkorbhütte auf der Dingle Halbinsel vorzeitlicher Chlochán auf den Aran Islands (Inishmore) der Clochán na Carraige Bienenkorbhütte, auch Biene …
54beehive tomb — a type of subterranean tomb of the Mycenaean civilization consisting of a domed chamber entered by a passage through a hillside. [1885 90] * * * or tholos Large, beehive shaped ceremonial tomb, sometimes built into the side of a hill. The… …
55Beehive, The — ▪ artists’ colony, France French La Ruche artists settlement on the outskirts of the Montparnasse section of Paris, which in the early 20th century was the centre of much avant garde activity. The Beehive housed the ramshackle living… …
56beehive of activity — See a beehive of activity …
57beehive coke — n coke manufactured in beehive, rectangular, or similar forms of ovens in a horizontal bed, where heat for the coking process is secured by combustion within the oven chamber …
58beehive pot — /ˈbihaɪv pɒt/ (say beehuyv pot) noun a lobster trap which is shaped like the top half of a dome shaped beehive, the entry point being at the top of the cone …
59beehive coke — noun : coke that is made in a beehive oven and is usually of large size and hard stringy structure …
60beehive — noun /ˈbiːhaɪv/ a) An enclosed structure in which some species of honey bees (genus Apis) live and raise their young. b) A man made structure in which bees are kept for their honey. Syn: hive, hive of activity, B 52 See Also: bee …
