Translation for "bee-hive" to spanish

Bee-hive

noun

• colmena

Translation examples

colmena noun

“More like a bee's hive than a palace.”
Más parece una colmena que un palacio. —¿Una colmena?

Take him to the bee-hive cell.
¡Llévenlo a una celda de la colmena!

But my head was buzzing like a bee-hive.
Pero la cabeza me zumbaba como una colmena.

The opposite of a bee hive or termite mound.
Lo contrario de una colmena de abejas o un hormiguero de termitas.

‘There used to be a bee-hive up there once,’ he told her.
—Antes ahí había una colmena —dijo—.

If Society is a bee-hive, then I am just another drone.
Si la Sociedad es una colmena, yo soy un zángano más.

Look at those bee-hives, she said, indicating the skyscrapers.
Mira esas colmenas», dijo, indicando los rascacielos.

It was a semi-circular space, shaped like the half of a bee-hive;
Llegamos a un espacio semicircular, en forma de media colmena.