APICULTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does apiculture mean? 

• APICULTURE (noun)
  The noun APICULTURE has 1 sense:

1. the cultivation of bees on a commercial scale for the production of honey

  Familiarity information: APICULTURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APICULTURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cultivation of bees on a commercial scale for the production of honey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

apiculture; beekeeping

Hypernyms ("apiculture" is a kind of...):

cultivation ((agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale))

Derivation:

apicultural (relating to the care and breeding of bees)

apiculturist (a farmer who keeps bees for their honey)