This page gathers the 24 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Beekeeping”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples.
- balling noun An incident when worker bees surround a queen bee, usually leading to her death by suffocation or starvation.
- beard verb Of bees, to accumulate together in a beard-like shape.
- brushed adj Having been artificially formed into a swarm by being brushed off a honeycomb.
- dance verb To make a repetitive movement in order to communicate to other worker honey bees.
- duplet noun An empty box placed above the existing boxes of the beehive in order to allow the colony to expand or store additional honey.
- eke noun A small stand on which a beehive is placed.
- goback noun A section of honeycomb that is unfinished and returned to the hive.
- gold bee noun Any one of several specific, visually striking yellow or golden species of bees native to North America.
- honey plant noun Any plant from which bees usually collect nectar, pollen, or both for making honey.
- nadir verb To extend (a beehive) by adding an empty box at the base.
- nucleus noun A small bee-hive used to create a colony from a larger existing one.
- outyard noun A temporary location with better sources of pollen to which a hive is moved during times when the plants in the normal location of the hive…
- queen verb To be the queen bee of a colony.
- queen excluder noun A selective barrier inside a beehive that allows workers past, but not the larger queens and drones.
- queen-cage noun A small case used to introduce and protect a new queen bee to a queenless hive in order to determine whether the new queen will be accepted…
- round dance noun A repetitive, circular movement made by a foraging honey bee in process of communicating to other workers that it has located a significant…
- smoke blower noun A small fire chamber with attached bellows used to blow smoke on a hive to pacify the bees before the beekeeper works on it.
- storification noun The process of storifying (storing honey in additional tiers of a hive).
- storify verb To store (additional honey) in additional tiers or stories of a hive.
- super noun Clipping of superhive.
- superhive noun An empty box placed above the existing boxes of the beehive in order to allow the colony to expand or store additional honey.
- tang verb To strike two metal objects together loudly in order to persuade a swarm of honeybees to land so it may be captured by the beekeeper.
- unqueen verb to remove the queen bee
- wax down verb To generate a layer of wax that completely covers.