apiculture
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prettygoodwordapiculture (AY-puh-kuhl-tchuhr) - n., beekeeping.
That is, the science of raising or maintaining colonies of bees and their hives, especially at scale. The word was apparently coined in French, from Latin apis, bee + cultūra, cultivation, on the model of agriculture (“field-culture”), and taken into English around 1860.
—L.
That is, the science of raising or maintaining colonies of bees and their hives, especially at scale. The word was apparently coined in French, from Latin apis, bee + cultūra, cultivation, on the model of agriculture (“field-culture”), and taken into English around 1860.
—L.
