GRE Word List

APICULTURE

the keeping of bees especially on a large scale

The meaning of the word apiculture is the keeping of bees especially on a large scale.

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irretrievablenot retrievable : impossible to regain or recover
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ellipsisthe omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete
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