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apiculturist

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a·pi·cul·ture  (p-klchr)
n.
The raising and care of bees for commercial or agricultural purposes.

[Latin apis, bee + culture.]

api·cultur·al adj.
api·cultur·ist n.
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Noun1.apiculturistapiculturist - a farmer who keeps bees for their honey
farmer, granger, husbandman, sodbuster - a person who operates a farm


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``It's an extremely labor-intensive business,'' said Eric Mussen, an apiculturist at the University of California, Davis.
Honeybees become harmless when taken away from their honeycomb [mass of waxy hexagonal cells that hold honey]," says apiculturist (bee expert) Eric Mussen at the University of California at Davis.
Apiculturists, however, will remember it as the winter their bees died.
 
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