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View synonyms for apiarist

apiarist

[ ey-pee-uh-rist ]

noun

  1. a person who keeps an apiary.


apiarist

/ ˈeɪpɪərɪst /

noun

  1. a person who studies or keeps bees
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of apiarist1

First recorded in 1810–20; apiar(y) + -ist
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Example Sentences

The big migration usually begins in January, with apiarists hauling hive-laden pallets to orchards on flatbed trucks and hoisting them off with forklifts.

An apiarist, he lives in Austin, with his wife, Lorin, their three children, and a hyperactive bird dog named Biscuit.

Grelet was a skilled apiarist, and replenished his melliferous flocks by wild swarms enticed from the forests.

LET us rather consider the proceedings of the swarm the apiarist shall have gathered into his hive.

Though I am, as I have said, an apiarist in good standing, I never realised that there were so many bees in the world.

Mr. Ernest Scholl, now Assistant and Apiarist, has furnished material as shown herein.

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