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- Dictionaryhoney/ˈhʌni/
noun
- 1. a sticky yellowish-brown fluid made by bees and other insects from nectar collected from flowers, eaten as a sweet food: "the bees will likely only be able to make enough honey to sustain the hive"
- 2. an excellent example of something: informal "it's one honey of an adaptation"
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Honey is a sweet and viscous substance made by several species of bees, the best-known of which are honey bees. [1] [2] Honey is made and stored to nourish bee colonies. Bees produce honey by gathering and then refining the sugary secretions of plants (primarily floral nectar) or the secretions of other insects, like the honeydew of aphids.
The meaning of HONEY is a sweet viscid material elaborated out of the nectar of flowers in the honey sac of various bees. How to use honey in a sentence.
Honey, sweet, viscous liquid food, dark golden in color, produced in the honey sacs of various bees from the nectar of flowers. Flavor and color are determined by the flowers from which the nectar is gathered.
Honey definition: a sweet, viscid fluid produced by bees from the nectar collected from flowers, and stored in nests or hives as food.. See examples of HONEY used in a sentence.
HONEY definition: 1. a sweet, sticky, yellow substance made by bees and used as food: 2. a name that you call…. Learn more.
HONEY meaning: 1. a sweet, sticky, yellow substance made by bees and used as food: 2. a name that you call…. Learn more.
Honey is the sweet, sticky substance that bees make from flower nectar. Most people like to put a little honey in their tea, but Winnie the Pooh likes to hoard it in a big pot. Honey comes in various consistencies — from almost solid, in honeycomb, to drippy and liquid.
honey in British English. (ˈhʌnɪ ) noun. 1. a sweet viscid substance made by bees from nectar and stored in their nests or hives as food. It is spread on bread or used as a sweetening agent. 2. any similar sweet substance, esp the nectar of flowers. 3.
Definition of honey noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. a sweet viscid fluid produced by bees from the nectar collected from flowers and stored in nests or hives as food. 2. this substance as used in cooking or as a spread or sweetener. 3. the nectar of flowers. 4. any of various similarly sweet viscid products produced by insects or in other ways.
