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a city where fifty thousand sisters run the empire and the men just freeload
means A structure, natural or human-made, where honeybees live and store their honey — by extension, any place buzzing with busy, crowded activity, or a tall rounded hairstyle that mimics one.
from A plain old English compound: 'bee' (Old English 'bēo,' the insect, with cousins across the Germanic languages) plus 'hive' (Old English 'hȳf,' the bees' dwelling, possibly tracing back to a root meaning something hollow or a container). So the word is exactly what it sounds like — the bee's house. The 1960s hairdo borrowed the name purely on looks, that towering domed coil resembling the old basketwork hives called skeps.
- queen rate
- lays up to 2000 eggs daily, her bodyweight
- drone fate
- males die mid-mating, genitals ripped out explosively
- thermostat
- bees cluster and shiver to hold 35°C all winter
- hexagon math
- wax cells use least material for max storage
- democracy
- swarms vote on new homes via waggle dance
beehive cluster — utah state prison complex in draper, operational since 1951
beehive geyser — yellowstone national park geyser with irregular eruptions up to 200 feet high