beepocalypse
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The widespread incidence of colony collapse disorder, feared to portend a coming mass extinction of honeybees.
Informal; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Yet the media has peddled alarming stories of a “beepocalypse” — a crash in honeybee populations."
- "The numbers suggest Canada's beekeeping industry is in good shape while the Americans are struggling with a “beepocalypse,” but a U.S. expert says the story is more complicated."
- "In the decade since, there's been a boom in beekeeping, with new hives offsetting losses of old hives, staving off the “beepocalypse,” Ellis says."
Etymology
From bee + -pocalypse.