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Spell Bee Word: Beehive


What does beehive mean?

Word: Beehive

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Beehive means a home where honeybees live and store their honey. It may be built by the bees themselves or made for them by people who keep bees.

Synonyms: hive

How do you spell beehive?

Syllables: bee - hive

Tricky part: Keep both e's of bee. Behive and beahive are common slips.

Watch out for: behive, beahive

Memory tip: Write the insect first, with both its e's, then add the name of its home.

Beehive in a sentence

Example 1: A huge beehive hung from the branch of the neem tree.

Example 2: The farmer wore gloves and a net before opening the beehive.

Example 3: Grandma keeps two wooden beehives at the edge of her mango orchard.

Fun Fact

In a beehive, worker bees build the comb from wax made in their own bodies, and every cell has six sides.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Makeup

Choose the correctly spelt compound word:

a) sunflowar
b) grashopper
c) butterfley
d) beehive

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d) beehive. Sunflower ends in er, butterfly in fly and grasshopper has a double s, which leaves beehive.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

beehieve

a) v
b) h
c) i
d) e

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d) e. Hive has no e between the i and the v.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

hebivee

a) beeline
b) behave
c) believe
d) beehive

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d) beehive. There is an h and no l in the jumble, so it cannot be believe or beeline, and behave would want an a.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

We watched the bees fly in and out of the beehive in the orchad.

a) orchad
b) bees
c) watched
d) beehive

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a) orchad. Orchard has an r before the d.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The person who looks after beehives is a ____.

a) bee-eater
b) beeline
c) beekeeper
d) bumblebee

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c) beekeeper

2. The classroom was like a beehive before the bell. This means it was ____.

a) busy and noisy
b) cold and quiet
c) dark and empty
d) full of bees

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a) busy and noisy

Associated Words

Words that end in -ive: attentive, deceptive, executive, strive, survive, creative

More words from this list

curiosity, enchanter, hail, mainland, photograph, surface, whimsy, ballet

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