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A place where bees are kept for their honey.
🌱Apple orchards are excellent sites for apiaries, since the bees keep the apple trees productive by pollinating them. 🌳Beekeeping, or apiculture, is the care of honeybees that ensures that they produce more honey than they can use. An apiary usually consists of many separate beehives. The social life of a hive is strange and marvelous. The queen bee, who will become the mother of an entire colony, is actually created by being fed "royal jelly" while she is still only a larva. The tens of thousands of worker bees are underdeveloped females; only a handful of the bees are male, and they do no work at all. The workers defend the hive by kamikaze means, stinging any intruder and dying as they do so. There's more drama in a quiet-looking apiary than the casual observer might notice. caper 1、 A playful leap.
2、 A prank or mischievous adventure.
🌱For their caper in the girls' bathroom, all three seniors were suspended for a week. 🌳Caper in Latin means "a male goat." Anyone who has watched a young goat frolic in a field or clamber onto the roof of a car knows the kind of crazy fun the English word caper—which is also a verb—is referring to. A capriole is a backward kick done in midair by a trained horse. Capricorn, meaning "horned goat," is a constellation and one of the signs of the zodiac. And a capricious act is one that's done with as little thought as a frisky goat might give it. equestrian Of or relating to horseback riding.
🌱The circus's equestrian acts, in which bareback riders performed daring acrobatic feats atop prancing horses, were her favorites. 🌳Equestrian comes from equus, Latin for "horse." Old statues of military heroes, like the famous one of General Sherman on New York's Fifth Avenue, are frequently equestrian. In these sculptures the man always sits nobly upright on a horse, but the horse's stance varies; depending on whether the rider was killed in battle or survived, was victorious or defeated, the horse traditionally stands with four, three, or two hooves on the ground. Equestrian statues have been popular through the centuries, because until the 20th century almost every officer in Europe and America was trained in equestrian skills and combat. lupine Like a wolf; wolfish.
🌱Doctors reported that the boy showed lupine behavior such as snarling and biting, and walked with his knees bent in a kind of crouch. 🌳Lupine comes from lupus, Latin for "wolf," and its related adjective lupinus,"wolfish." Lupine groups have a highly organized social structure, with leaders and followers clearly distinguished; dogs, since they're descended from wolves, often show these lupine patterns when living in groups. Stories of children raised by wolves （the most famous being Romulus, the legendary founder of Rome） have generally been hard to prove, partly because "wild" children lack human language abilities and can't describe their experiences. Lupine is also a noun, the name of a well-known garden flower, which was once thought to drain, or "wolf," the soil of its nutrients. ovine Of, relating to, or resembling sheep.
🌱In her veterinary practice she specialized in ovine medicine, but often treated cows and pigs as well. 🌳Sheep belong to the same family of mammals as goats, antelope, bison, buffalo, and cows. The genus Ovis includes at least five species, including the domestic sheep. Some 12,000 years ago, in the area now known as Iraq, sheep became one of the first animals to be domesticated; only the dog is known to have been tamed earlier. At first, they were valued for their milk, skin, and meat （mutton and lamb）; not until about 1500 B.C. did the weaving of wool begin. Today a billion sheep are being farmed worldwide. The term ovine （which is a noun as well as an adjective） is mostly used in scientific and medical writing—which means you could impress your friends by dropping it into a casual conversation. ornithologist A person who studies birds.
🌱John James Audubon, the great painter of the birds of early America, was also a writing ornithologist of great importance. 🌳The Greek root ornith- means "bird," so ornithology is the study of birds. Amateur ornithology, usually called birding or birdwatching, is an extraordinarily popular pastime in America, where over 40 million people pursue it. Roger Tory Peterson's many field guides have long been some of the amateur ornithologist's most useful tools. Amateurs often make essential contributions to serious ornithology, as in the annual Christmas Bird Count, when tens of thousands of birders fan out across North and South America to produce a kind of census of all the species in the New World. serpentine Like a snake or serpent in shape or movement; winding.
🌱The Great Wall of China, the greatest construction of all time, wends its serpentine way for some 4,000 miles across the Chinese landscape. 🌳A snake moves by curving and winding along the ground. Roads through the Pyrenees, the mountains that separate Spain from France, tend to be serpentine, curving back and forth on themselves up and down the steep slopes. Serpentine has other meanings as well. As a noun, it's the name for a soft green mineral, and also for the party streamers you might throw at midnight on New Year's Eve. The serpentine belt under the hood in your car is the long, looping belt that most of the car's accessories—the AC, the power steering, the alternator, and so on—depend on to get their power. simian Having to do with monkeys or apes; monkeylike.
🌱Every afternoon the pale youth could be found watching the simian antics in the Monkey House with strange intensity. 🌳The Latin word for "ape" is simia, which itself comes from simus,"snub-nosed." Simian is usually a scientific word; thus, for instance, biologists study simian viruses in the search for cures to AIDS and other diseases. But simian can be used by the rest of us to describe human behavior. Human babies often cling to their mothers in a simian way, and kids playing on a jungle gym may look like simians. But if you notice that a friend has a simian style of walking or eating bananas, it might be best not to tell him.
🌱Apple orchards are excellent sites for apiaries, since the bees keep the apple trees productive by pollinating them. 🌳Beekeeping, or apiculture, is the care of honeybees that ensures that they produce more honey than they can use. An apiary usually consists of many separate beehives. The social life of a hive is strange and marvelous. The queen bee, who will become the mother of an entire colony, is actually created by being fed "royal jelly" while she is still only a larva. The tens of thousands of worker bees are underdeveloped females; only a handful of the bees are male, and they do no work at all. The workers defend the hive by kamikaze means, stinging any intruder and dying as they do so. There's more drama in a quiet-looking apiary than the casual observer might notice. caper 1、 A playful leap.
2、 A prank or mischievous adventure.
🌱For their caper in the girls' bathroom, all three seniors were suspended for a week. 🌳Caper in Latin means "a male goat." Anyone who has watched a young goat frolic in a field or clamber onto the roof of a car knows the kind of crazy fun the English word caper—which is also a verb—is referring to. A capriole is a backward kick done in midair by a trained horse. Capricorn, meaning "horned goat," is a constellation and one of the signs of the zodiac. And a capricious act is one that's done with as little thought as a frisky goat might give it. equestrian Of or relating to horseback riding.
🌱The circus's equestrian acts, in which bareback riders performed daring acrobatic feats atop prancing horses, were her favorites. 🌳Equestrian comes from equus, Latin for "horse." Old statues of military heroes, like the famous one of General Sherman on New York's Fifth Avenue, are frequently equestrian. In these sculptures the man always sits nobly upright on a horse, but the horse's stance varies; depending on whether the rider was killed in battle or survived, was victorious or defeated, the horse traditionally stands with four, three, or two hooves on the ground. Equestrian statues have been popular through the centuries, because until the 20th century almost every officer in Europe and America was trained in equestrian skills and combat. lupine Like a wolf; wolfish.
🌱Doctors reported that the boy showed lupine behavior such as snarling and biting, and walked with his knees bent in a kind of crouch. 🌳Lupine comes from lupus, Latin for "wolf," and its related adjective lupinus,"wolfish." Lupine groups have a highly organized social structure, with leaders and followers clearly distinguished; dogs, since they're descended from wolves, often show these lupine patterns when living in groups. Stories of children raised by wolves （the most famous being Romulus, the legendary founder of Rome） have generally been hard to prove, partly because "wild" children lack human language abilities and can't describe their experiences. Lupine is also a noun, the name of a well-known garden flower, which was once thought to drain, or "wolf," the soil of its nutrients. ovine Of, relating to, or resembling sheep.
🌱In her veterinary practice she specialized in ovine medicine, but often treated cows and pigs as well. 🌳Sheep belong to the same family of mammals as goats, antelope, bison, buffalo, and cows. The genus Ovis includes at least five species, including the domestic sheep. Some 12,000 years ago, in the area now known as Iraq, sheep became one of the first animals to be domesticated; only the dog is known to have been tamed earlier. At first, they were valued for their milk, skin, and meat （mutton and lamb）; not until about 1500 B.C. did the weaving of wool begin. Today a billion sheep are being farmed worldwide. The term ovine （which is a noun as well as an adjective） is mostly used in scientific and medical writing—which means you could impress your friends by dropping it into a casual conversation. ornithologist A person who studies birds.
🌱John James Audubon, the great painter of the birds of early America, was also a writing ornithologist of great importance. 🌳The Greek root ornith- means "bird," so ornithology is the study of birds. Amateur ornithology, usually called birding or birdwatching, is an extraordinarily popular pastime in America, where over 40 million people pursue it. Roger Tory Peterson's many field guides have long been some of the amateur ornithologist's most useful tools. Amateurs often make essential contributions to serious ornithology, as in the annual Christmas Bird Count, when tens of thousands of birders fan out across North and South America to produce a kind of census of all the species in the New World. serpentine Like a snake or serpent in shape or movement; winding.
🌱The Great Wall of China, the greatest construction of all time, wends its serpentine way for some 4,000 miles across the Chinese landscape. 🌳A snake moves by curving and winding along the ground. Roads through the Pyrenees, the mountains that separate Spain from France, tend to be serpentine, curving back and forth on themselves up and down the steep slopes. Serpentine has other meanings as well. As a noun, it's the name for a soft green mineral, and also for the party streamers you might throw at midnight on New Year's Eve. The serpentine belt under the hood in your car is the long, looping belt that most of the car's accessories—the AC, the power steering, the alternator, and so on—depend on to get their power. simian Having to do with monkeys or apes; monkeylike.
🌱Every afternoon the pale youth could be found watching the simian antics in the Monkey House with strange intensity. 🌳The Latin word for "ape" is simia, which itself comes from simus,"snub-nosed." Simian is usually a scientific word; thus, for instance, biologists study simian viruses in the search for cures to AIDS and other diseases. But simian can be used by the rest of us to describe human behavior. Human babies often cling to their mothers in a simian way, and kids playing on a jungle gym may look like simians. But if you notice that a friend has a simian style of walking or eating bananas, it might be best not to tell him.
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