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BEEKEEPING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does beekeeping mean?
• BEEKEEPING (noun)
The noun BEEKEEPING has 1 sense:
1. the cultivation of bees on a commercial scale for the production of honey
Familiarity information: BEEKEEPING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("beekeeping" is a kind of...):
cultivation ((agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale))
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