apiculture
/ey-pi-kuhl-cher/US // ˈeɪ pɪˌkʌl tʃər //UK // (ˈeɪpɪˌkʌltʃə) //
养蜂业,养蜂
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : beekeeping, especially on a commercial scale for the sale of honey.
Examples
IT is not my intention to write a treatise on apiculture, or on practical bee-keeping.
If we were asked to name the most important desideratum in apiculture, we should say feeding.
The next thing in order, after purchasing bees, should be a good standard work on apiculture; and study it well.
The Samogitians are good hunters, and all Lithuanians are given to apiculture and cattle breeding.
This sign occurs very frequently in the pages devoted to apiculture.
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