beehive

Everyday

1. A box or other structure where bees live and make honey. tree →
2. A hairstyle piled high on the head. tree →

In the lessons

In science: bees live in a hive with a queen, workers and drones, and make honey in wax cells shaped like hexagons. Safety: stay calm near a beehive. Phrases: busy as a beehive, beehive hairstyle.

Examples

• The beekeeper opened the beehive carefully. tree →
• There are thousands of bees in one beehive. tree →
• Honey is stored in the beehive in wax cells. tree →
• The classroom was as busy as a beehive. tree →
• Do not poke a beehive. tree →
• Her grandmother once wore her hair in a beehive. tree →
• ‘In my youth, when I was an old man, we had a quantity of beehives. tree →

Note

Often shortened to "hive". The cells of a honeycomb are hexagons (six sides) — a favourite maths fact. Wild bees may make a nest, not a beehive.