apimania

noun

apimania

noun

Etymology From Latin apis (“bee”) + -mania.

1

Rare An excessive interest in bees.

Cesi's Lincean bees made a spectacular impression and contributed greatly to the apimania that gripped the Rome of Urban VIII.Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome (volume 40, page 216)

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