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Definition of Hivelike
1. resembling a beehive [adj] - See also: beehive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hivelike
Literary usage of Hivelike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Educational Sociology by David Snedden (1922)
"Hard pavements, hivelike schools, smoke, dust, noise, incessant flow of humanity—these
are the omnipresent pressures and stimuli. ..."
2. Educational Sociology by David Snedden (1922)
"Hard pavements, hivelike schools, smoke, dust, noise, incessant flow of humanity—these
are the omnipresent pressures and stimuli. ..."
3. Archaic England: An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic by Harold Bayley (1920)
"... or anything of concave or hivelike shape. Possibly here we have the origin of
quick in its sense of living or alive. One of the features of Michaelmas ..."
4. Common Diseases by Woods Hutchinson (1913)
"the free expectoration later are merely symptoms — first, of the hot, itchy, dry,
hivelike swelling which is taking place in the bronchial tubes; second, ..."
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