a. [ad. L. apiān-us, f. apis bee.] Of or belonging to bees.
1862. F. Hall, Hindu Philos. Syst., 122. If a human soul … were … born a bee, an apian body would be inadequate to contain it.
1880. Grant Allen, Evolutionist at Large, 7. Abstract ideas are not likely to play a large part in apian consciousness.
