honey
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- noun
- /ˈhʌni/
:
miel
- Some breads were made with honey, with cheese, or even with meats.
- milk and honey
- honey bee
- collect honey
I do raw goat's milk with a local honey that's organic.
- I do raw goat's milk with a local honey that's organic.
- Now we're also adding sugar in the form of the honey and in the sauce.
- You can write APHD about honey and I'm sure people have done it.
- This string of bees that once turned honey into sun.
Examples
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Have lemon water and a spoonful of honey and an orange.
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This honey is our inheritance.
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And here upon earth they came to suck honey from all the various flowers.
Academic text (2011) -
In doing so, they burn as much as fifty pounds of honey during the long winter.
Academic text (1990) -
Mayer estimates the yearly loss in potential honey production in these regions is approximately $27 million.
Academic text (1992) -
For dessert, strawberries, pine nuts and honey.
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Pete worked the extracting machines, eventually pouring the honey into large plastic containers for later bottling.
Fiction book (1993) -
Now they were homeward bound and they were leaving the hardship and toil of Alaska to live in the land of milk and honey.
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The children enjoyed drizzling honey over their pancakes at breakfast.
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She added honey to her tea for a touch of sweetness.
Synonyms
A form of honey in which part of the sugar has formed small crystals, making it thick or solid
Dark sweet spread made by bees from sticky drops on leaves with a strong rich taste
Idioms
A humorous way to say you find a woman extremely attractive
- Informal
Say nice words you do not mean to get something from someone
Compounds
- Specialized
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A honey bee bred from African and European bees that is very aggressive and spreads across the Americas
- Indian
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7.6
A strong, fierce mammal from Africa and southern Asia that hunts at night and breaks into beehives
- US
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8.6
A tall North American tree with long twisted seed pods and hard reddish-brown wood
A form of honey in which part of the sugar has formed small crystals, making it thick or solid
A plant that lives for many years with bright yellow flowers that attract bees and butterflies
- US
An animal from tropical America that lives in trees and uses its long tail to hold branches while eating fruit
- South African
A small African shrub with long hanging stems and yellow flowers that smell sweet
An edible mushroom with honey-colored caps that grows at tree bases and must be cooked before eating
- Specialized
A very large fungus made of connected underground parts that spreads and kills trees
- Specialized
A small part of a plant or animal that makes a sweet liquid to attract insects like bees
- Indian
A small African and Asian bird that eats honey and wax from bees and leads people to bee nests
A thorny small tree with deep roots that makes sweet pods eaten by farm animals
A honey-colored edible mushroom that grows near tree roots in late summer and autumn and must be cooked before eating
- Australian
An Australian shrub with groups of sweet flowers that attract bees and birds
Dark sweet spread made by bees from sticky drops on leaves with a strong rich taste
A thorny small tree with deep roots that grows in dry areas and has sweet pods used as animal feed
How Thick
Surface Forms
Etymology
Honey the food comes from an old English word hunig and has long named the 'sweet, thick' liquid bees make from flowers. That's why honey still means the sweet substance made by bees.