| hive | | |
| n. (group) | 1. hive | a teeming multitude. |
| ~ concourse, throng, multitude | a large gathering of people. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. beehive, hive | a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees. |
| ~ apiary, bee house | a shed containing a number of beehives. |
| ~ receptacle | a container that is used to put or keep things in. |
| ~ skep | a domed beehive made of twisted straw. |
| n. (object) | 3. beehive, hive | a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree. |
| ~ honeycomb | a structure of small hexagonal cells constructed from beeswax by bees and used to store honey and larvae. |
| ~ nest | a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young. |
| v. (possession) | 4. hive | store, like bees.; "bees hive honey and pollen"; "He hived lots of information" |
| ~ hive away, lay in, salt away, stack away, stash away, store, put in | keep or lay aside for future use.; "store grain for the winter"; "The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat" |
| v. (motion) | 5. hive | move together in a hive or as if in a hive.; "The bee swarms are hiving" |
| ~ foregather, forgather, assemble, gather, meet | collect in one place.; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room" |
| v. (contact) | 6. hive | gather into a hive.; "The beekeeper hived the swarm" |
| ~ gather, pull together, collect, garner | assemble or get together.; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together" |
| honeybee | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. apis mellifera, honeybee | social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces. |
| ~ bee | any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species. |
| ~ apis, genus apis | type genus of the Apidae: honeybees. |
| ~ africanized bee, africanized honey bee, apis mellifera adansonii, apis mellifera scutellata, killer bee | a strain of bees that originated in Brazil in the 1950s as a cross between an aggressive African bee and a honeybee; retains most of the traits of the African bee; now spread as far north as Texas. |
| ~ black bee, german bee | dark-colored ill-tempered honeybee supposedly of German origin. |
| ~ carniolan bee | greyish highly productive European honeybee that has a quiet disposition. |
| ~ italian bee | yellowish honeybee resembling the Carniolan bee in its habits. |
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