Apiculture
APICULTURE (from Lat. apis, a bee), bee-keeping (see Bee). So also other compounds of api-. Apiarium or apiary, a bee-house or hive, is used figuratively by old writers for a place of industry, e.g. a college.
Note - this article incorporates content from Encyclopaedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, (1910-1911)
