colmena

Meaning

beehive

Concepts

beehive

hive

hives

honey

apiaries

beehives

skeps

bee

common morel

merkle

morel

sponge mushroom

yellow morel

Frequency

C2
Hyphenated as
col‧me‧na
Gender
♀️ Feminine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kolˈmena/
Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *colmēna, from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, most likely from Proto-Celtic *kolmēnā, derived from *kŏlmos (“straw”). Compare Galician colmea and Portuguese colmeia.

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