Word Meanings - APICULTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Rearing of bees for their honey and wax.

Related words: (words related to APICULTURE)

• HONEYED
  1. Covered with honey. 2. Sweet, as, honeyed words. Milton.
• HONEYWORT
  A European plant of the genus Cerinthe, whose flowers are very attractive to bees. Loudon.
• REAR-HORSE
  A mantis.
• HONEYSUCKLE
  One of several species of flowering plants, much admired for their beauty, and some for their fragrance. Note: The honeysuckles are properly species of the genus Lonicera; as, L. Caprifolium, and L. Japonica, the commonly cultivated fragrant kinds;
• HONEY-TONGUED
  Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak.
• REARGUMENT
  An arguing over again, as of a motion made in court.
• HONEYWARE
  See BADDERLOCKS
• HONEY
  G. honig, OHG. honag, honang, Icel. hunang, Sw. håning, Dan. honning, 1. A sweet viscid fluid, esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb. 2. That which is sweet or pleasant, like honey. The
• REARMOST
  Farthest in the rear; last.
• REARLY
  Early. Beau. & Ft.
• HONEY-SWEET
  Sweet as honey. Chaucer.
• HONEY-BAG
  The receptacle for honey in a honeybee. Shak. Grew.
• HONEYSTONE
  See MELLITE
• REARER
  One he, or that which, rears.
• HONEYBIRD
  The honey guide.
• HONEYBERRY
  having sweetish berries: An Old World hackberry . In the West Indies, the genip .
• HONEYCOMBED
  Formed or perforated like a honeycomb. Each bastion was honeycombed with casements. Motley.
• HONEYSUCKER
  See HONEY
• HONEYDEW
  1. A sweet, saccharine substance, found on the leaves of trees and other plants in small drops, like dew. Two substances have been called by this name; one exuded from the plants, and the other secreted by certain insects, esp. aphids. 2. A kind
• FIREARM
  A gun, pistol, or any weapon from a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder.
• DREAR
  Dismal; gloomy with solitude. "A drear and dying sound." Milton.
• OVEREARNEST
  Too earnest. -- O"ver*ear"nest*ly, adv. -- O"ver*ear"nest*ness, n.
• AREAR
  To raise; to set up; to stir up.
• PREARM
  To forearm.
• UPREAR
  To raise; to erect. Byron.
• FOREARM
  To arm or prepare for attack or resistance before the time of need. South.
• DREARINESS
  1. Sorrow; wretchedness. 2. Dismalness; gloomy solitude.