Word Meanings - HONEYSUCKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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- 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. - 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. - 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 - HONEY-SWEET
Sweet as honey. Chaucer. - HONEY-BAG
The receptacle for honey in a honeybee. Shak. Grew. - HONEYSTONE
See MELLITE - 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 - HONEYBEE
Any bee of the genus Apis, which lives in communities and collects honey, esp. the common domesticated hive bee (Apis mellifica), the Italian bee , and the Arabiab bee (A. fasciata). The two latter are by many entomologists considered - HONEYSUCKLED
Covered with honeysuckles. - HONEY-MOUTHED
Soft to sweet in speech; persuasive. Shak. - HONEYMOON
The first month after marriage. Addison. - HONEYLESS
Destitute of honey. Shak. - HONEYCOMB
1. A mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs. 2. Any substance, as a easting of iron, a piece of worm-eaten wood, or of triple, etc., perforated with cells like a honeycomb. Honeycomb moth