Relating to apiculture; concerned with or used in beekeeping and the raising of honeybees.
From apiculture (beekeeping) + Latin -alis (relating to). This adjective formed in the 19th century as beekeeping became a scientific discipline.
All those techniques and tools beekeepers use—from hive design to honey harvesting—are apicultural, and they've been refined over centuries of trial and error!
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