Simone Muench's Word of the Day

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apiary, n.
A place where bees and beehives are kept, especially a place where bees are raised for their honey.

"The bee-boy, merops apiater, on sultry thundery days filled his bosom between his coarse shirt and his skin with bees--his every meal wild honey."


From The Part of the Bee's Body Embedded in the Flesh by Carol Frost
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