: a tomb shaped like a beehive cut in a hillside and usually approached by a horizontal passage, distinctive of the Mycenaean age in Greece
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a type of subterranean tomb of the Mycenaean civilization consisting of a domed chamber entered by a passage through a hillside.
[1885-90]
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beehive tomb,
a dome-shaped subterranean tomb of the Mycenaean age in Greece, consisting of a dromos cut into a hillside and ending in a circular chamber.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.