tepikan 2 noun English. A small, black colony honeybee which lives in a hive on the side of trees. Example sentence: Subanen. Mbuus taasendaw, penega'en ta su minita'u tepikan ditu geksid binaalu, minapet dig bata' tiulu, mabu' duun nai teneben. English. This noon let's cut down the tree that I saw near the field I'm clearing, that has a bees" nest in it, a little tiulu tree; there's probably honey in it by now. Generic. tubu'