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| apiary |
a place where bees are kept in beehives, usu. for their honey. |
| baklava |
a dessert of various regions near the Mediterranean made from layers of flaky pastry, honey, and nuts. |
| bear2 |
a large furry mammal with a short tail. Bears are omnivorous; they may eat plants, honey, insects, fish, and small mammals. There are several kinds of bears, including black bears, brown bears, grizzly bears, and polar bears. |
| bee |
a flying insect that sometimes stings. Some kinds of bees make honey from the sweet liquid they get from flowers. |
| candied |
cooked or coated in or with sugar, honey, or syrup, esp. to glaze, encrust, or preserve. [1/2 definitions] |
| colony collapse disorder |
an event in which all or most of the worker bees of a hive disappear, leaving in the hive the queen, the immature bees, and some adult bees to care for the immature bees, and the honey. |
| electuary |
a drug mixed with honey, syrup, or the like to form a paste to be smeared on the teeth or gums of a sick animal. |
| fructose |
a very sweet sugar found in honey and fruit, used for intravenous feeding and to preserve foods. |
| granola |
a dry mixture of ingredients such as grains, raisins, nuts, and honey. It is eaten as a snack or breakfast cereal. |
| halvah |
a sweet, candylike Turkish confection made of ground sesame seeds and honey. |
| honey |
to add honey to, for flavor or sweetening. [1/6 definitions] |
| honeybee |
a bee that makes honey from the nectar of flowers. Honeybees are often kept in beehives. |
| honeycomb |
a group of many small cells made of wax in which bees store their honey. Each cell has thin walls and six sides. [1/3 definitions] |
| honeyed |
containing honey. [1/3 definitions] |
| honey pot |
the wax structure housing honey, made esp. by bumblebees, for storage. [2/3 definitions] |
| lebkuchen |
(sometimes cap.) a type of hard or chewy cookie containing citron, nuts, and honey. |
| levulose |
a simple sugar found in honey and certain fruits; fructose. |
| locust |
any of various similar or related trees, including the honey locust and the carob. [1/5 definitions] |
| mead |
an alcoholic liquor made of fermented honey and water. |
| mellifluous |
flowing and sweet, as though with honey. |
| metheglin |
an alcoholic drink of fermented honey and water and sometimes spices; mead. |
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