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api-

api- prefix: forming terms related to bees or honeybees.

Prefix

api-

  1. Forming terms related to bees or honeybees.
    • api- + -phobia → apiphobia (“the fear of bees”)
    • api- + puncture → apipuncture (“the sting of a bee, as a supposed therapy”)

Origin of api-

From Latin apis (“bee”).

Questions about api-

What does api- mean?
Api- means forming terms related to bees or honeybees.
What part of speech is api-?
Api- is a prefix.

Words near api- in the dictionary

  1. API gravity
  2. API Service Symbol
  3. API Service Symbols
  4. API unit
  5. API units
  6. api-
  7. Apia
  8. apiaceous
  9. Apiacá
  10. Apiaká
  11. apian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: api- (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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