HONEY


Meaning of HONEY in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

clear

Simmer for about 5 minutes until the sugar has dissolved, then stir in four tablespoons of clear honey .

Quarter figs, top them with some cinnamon-spiced ricotta and drizzle with clear honey .

sweet

But last week, when I went to buy some sweet chestnut honey , she looked serious.

■ NOUN

bee

My first flight was in cessna called a honey bee , it was with a man called Andy who my dad knows.

Most of the journeys made by honey bees or Cataglyphis are so brief that its movement is not of great significance.

A review of the honey bees is flanked by a fascinating description of the less well known bumble bees.

Concern is expressed that agricultural methods and the widespread introductions of honey bees are reducing the populations of bumble bees.

There are among honey bees three reported examples that appear at first glance to qualify as cognitive trial-and-error.

These flowers possess spring-loaded anthers that give honey bees a rough blow when they enter.

In the face of potential starvation, honey bees finally begin foraging on alfalfa, but they learn to avoid being clubbed.

The hexagonal cells, however, are built with a precision and uniformity that fully matches those of the honey bee .

pot

It was like bees round a honey pot .

And when Rabbit shows Pooh the honey , again the inference is direct: a honey pot , therefore honey.

■ VERB

flow

Are the hills not flowing with milk and honey ?

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

the land of milk and honey

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Do you have a pen, honey ?

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And if it isn't honey , the absence of that taste will cause Pooh to believe that it isn't honey.

Garlic butter, honey butter, and maple butter are mixtures of butter and the named ingredients.

He bore a tray with a pint mug of steaming coffee and two thick slices of bread and honey .

The wasp strays in, eats a little honey , warms itself, tries to sting and travels out to some winter lair.

Trepolov absentmindedly bit viciously into the peppermint honey cake.

Where were you born, honey ?

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