The word of the day for September 4th.
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Today's word is apiary, spelled A-P-I-A-R-Y.
Apiary is a noun.
It refers to a place where bees are kept,
and especially a collection of hives or colonies of bees kept for their honey.
Here's the word used in a sentence from the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The 70-year-old retiree from South Philadelphia ordinarily would avoid bees out of fear,
but this spring she suited up for a study on therapeutic beekeeping at the Half-Mad Honey Apiary in the Navy Yard.
Led by Temple University occupational therapy student Megan Robertson,
the project tested if beekeeping could improve mental health and well-being in older adults.
For those who enjoy honey and the fascinating creatures that make it, apiaries are the bee's knees.
The word apiary, which comes ultimately from the Latin word apis,
meaning bee, can refer to any place where bees are kept,
but is used especially for a collection of hives or colonies of bees kept for their honey.
Honeybee colonies are highly complex clusters of individuals