apiculture

[ ey-pi-kuhl-cher ]

/ ˈeɪ pɪˌkʌl tʃər /

beekeeping, especially on a commercial scale for the sale of honey.

Origin of apiculture

1860–65; < Latin api(s) bee + culture

a·pi·cul·tur·al, adjective a·pi·cul·tur·ist, noun

IT is not my intention to write a treatise on apiculture, or on practical bee-keeping.

The Life of the Bee |Maurice Maeterlinck
But the enumeration of such procedures belongs rather to technical treatises on apiculture, and would take us too far.

The Life of the Bee |Maurice Maeterlinck
If we were asked to name the most important desideratum in apiculture, we should say feeding.

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 698 |Various
It is not by this happy-go-lucky method that profits are made by apiculture.

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 698 |Various

The next thing in order, after purchasing bees, should be a good standard work on apiculture; and study it well.

Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 1, January 5, 1884. |Various

apiculture

/ (ˈeɪpɪˌkʌltʃə) /

the breeding and care of bees

apicultural, adjective apiculturist, noun

C19: from Latin apis bee + culture