hives
pronunciation
How to pronounce hives in British English:
UK [haɪvz]
How to pronounce hives in American English:
US [haɪvz]
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- Noun:
- an itchy skin eruption characterized by weals with pale interiors and well-defined red margins; usually the result of an allergic response to insect bites or food or drugs
Word Origin
- hives (n.)
- c. 1500 hyvis "itchy condition of the skin," origin unknown. Some writers connect it with heave because hives erupt out from the skin, but the phonetics of that are difficult to explain.
Example
- 1. Those without gardens are increasingly using rooftops for their hives .
- 2. They then looked to see whether there was anything in the abandoned hives that was not found elsewhere .
- 3. A further ten hives were given unspiked food as a control .
- 4. Farmers pay him to bring his hives to their fields .
- 5. In hives affected by colony collapse disorder-a phenomenon that surfaced in u. s.honeybee colonies in 2006-worker bees vanish en masse .