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beekeeper

/ˈbikipər/
/ˈbikipə/
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Other forms: beekeepers

A beekeeper is someone who manages bee hives and extracts honey. If you see a person wearing a white jumpsuit and a hat with a veil — and they're covered in buzzing insects — it's probably a beekeeper.

If you want to get really fancy, you can call a beekeeper an apiarist. Beekeepers manage apiaries, or networks of honey bee hives. They care for the hives, making sure they are an ideal environment for the bees to live and make honey. It's also the beekeeper's job to carefully extract honeycomb without harming the bees. Many people keep bees as a hobby, yielding just a little bit of honey each year.

Definitions of beekeeper
  1. noun
    a farmer who keeps bees for their honey
    synonyms: apiarist, apiculturist
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    type of:
    farmer, granger, husbandman, sodbuster
    a person who operates a farm
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