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colmena — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • beehive noun A structure, natural or built, in which bees live and produce honey.
  • morel noun An edible wild mushroom with a distinctive honeycomb-like cap.

Senses

colmena is used for these senses in English:

  • beehive Such a home prepared by the bees themselves, in which some species of honey bees live and raise their young.
  • beehive A man-made structure in which honey bees are kept so that humans can harvest their honey.
  • beehive A women's hairstyle, popular in the 1960s, in which long hair is styled into a hive-shaped form on top of the head and usually held in place with lacquer.
  • morel A true morel; any of several fungi in the genus Morchella, the upper part of which is covered with a reticulated and pitted hymenium.

beehive — full definition

  1. noun A structure, natural or built, in which bees live and produce honey.
  2. noun A tall, rounded hairstyle piled up on top of the head.

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