plural beehives
1
: hive sense 1
In the spring, two young grizzly bears, just out of a winter's sleep, … knocked over a half-dozen commercial beehives and fed on the honey and larvae within.—
Jim Robbins
Jim Robbins2
: something resembling a hive for bees: such as
a
: a scene of crowded activity
… a beehive of growling trucks, riverboats laden with supplies, helicopters and airplanes buzzing overhead …—National Geographic
National Geographic
b
: a woman's hairstyle that is conical in shape
She is about sixty-five with hair white as spun sugar, piled up in a beehive hairdo that has been out of style for twenty years.—W. P. Kinsella
W. P. Kinsella
beehive
adjective
Examples of beehive in a Sentence
The office was a beehive of activity.
wearing her hair in a beehive
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Officials, including Russ Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, have accused Powell of presiding over a lavish overhaul of the central bank’s headquarters to include Italian beehives, water features and executive elevators whisking Fed policymakers to an executive dining room.
—Lucy Bayly, CNN Money, 21 July 2025
And this is the focus of everything served at the hotel which has an impressive kitchen garden and beehives.
—Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025
For biodiversity support, the gardens include wildflowers, living walls and roofs, bird boxes, and active beehives.
—Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 July 2025
That’s why what is needed is statewide legislation that includes a conflict reduction community grant program that provides money to communities for bear resistant trash cans and electric fencing around chickens and beehives.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 30 June 2025
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Lucy Bayly, CNN Money, 21 July 2025
And this is the focus of everything served at the hotel which has an impressive kitchen garden and beehives.
—Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025
For biodiversity support, the gardens include wildflowers, living walls and roofs, bird boxes, and active beehives.
—Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 July 2025
That’s why what is needed is statewide legislation that includes a conflict reduction community grant program that provides money to communities for bear resistant trash cans and electric fencing around chickens and beehives.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 30 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for beehive
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“Beehive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beehive. Accessed 31 Jul. 2025.
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