a. and sb. [f. L. apiāri-um bee-house, apiāri-us bee-keeper + -AN.]
A. adj. Pertaining to bee-hives or bee-keeping.
1801. (title) Transactions of the Western Apiarian Society.
1816. Kirby & Spence, Entomol. (1843), II. 168. These apiarian battles are often fought in defence of the property of the hive.
1871. Athenæum, 27 May, 658/1. As is evinced in all the apiarian works which were written down to within the last century, the radial error obtained of ascribing to the mother-bee the title and attributes of male royalty.
B. sb. = APIARIST. rare.
1858. Penny Cycl., 2nd Supp. 680/2. The dust of the common puff-ball … used by Apiarians for stupefying bees.
