Definition of honey, Meaning of honey, Translation of honey

Africanized honey bee Click to Search Africanized honey bee
noun a strain of bees that originated in Brazil in the 1950s as a cross between an aggressive African bee and a honeybee; retains most of the traits of the African bee; now spread as far north as Texas • Syn: Africanized bee, killer bee, Apis mellifera scutellata, Apis mellifera adansonii • Hypernyms: honeybee, Apis mellifera

golden honey plant Click to Search golden honey plant
noun perennial herb with showy yellow flowers; the eastern United States • Syn: wingstem, golden ironweed, yellow ironweed, Verbesina alternifolia, Actinomeris alternifolia • Hypernyms: crownbeard, crown-beard, crown beard

honey Click to Search honey
I noun 1. a sweet yellow liquid produced by bees (Freq. 9) • Hypernyms: sweetening, sweetener • Substance Holonyms: mead, oenomel 2. a beloved person; used as terms of endearment (Freq. 4) • Syn: beloved, dear, dearest, love • Derivationally related forms: love (for: love), dear (for: dear), beloved (for: beloved) • Hypernyms: lover II verb sweeten with honey • Hypernyms: sweeten, dulcify, edulcorate, dulcorate • Verb Frames: - example : Somebody ----s something III adjective of something having the color of honey (Freq. 2) • Similar to: chromatic

honey badger Click to Search honey badger
noun nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia • Syn: ratel, Mellivora capensis • Hypernyms: musteline mammal, mustelid, musteline • Member Holonyms: Mellivora, genus Mellivora

honey bear Click to Search honey bear
noun arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail • Syn: kinkajou, potto, Potos flavus, Potos caudivolvulus • Hypernyms: procyonid • Member Holonyms: Potos, genus Potos

honey bell Click to Search honey bell
noun African shrub having decumbent stems and slender yellow honey-scented flowers either solitary or in pairs • Syn: honeybells, Hermannia verticillata, Mahernia verticillata • Hypernyms: shrub, bush • Member Holonyms: Hermannia, genus Hermannia

honey berry Click to Search honey berry
noun tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp • Syn: Spanish lime, Spanish lime tree, mamoncillo, genip, ginep, Melicocca bijuga, Melicocca bijugatus • Hypernyms: fruit tree • Member Holonyms: Melicoccus, genus Melicoccus, Melicocca, genus Melicocca • Part Meronyms: genip, Spanish lime

honey bun Click to Search honey bun
noun rolled dough spread with sugar and nuts then sliced and baked in muffin tins with honey or sugar and butter in the bottom • Syn: sticky bun, caramel bun, schnecken • Hypernyms: sweet roll, coffee roll

honey buzzard Click to Search honey buzzard
noun Old World hawk that feeds on bee larvae and small rodents and reptiles • Syn: Pernis apivorus • Hypernyms: hawk • Member Holonyms: Pernis, genus Pernis

honey cake Click to Search honey cake
noun a spicy cake partially sweetened with honey • Hypernyms: cake

honey crisp Click to Search honey crisp
noun a crisp candy made with honey • Hypernyms: candy, confect

honey eater Click to Search honey eater
noun Australasian bird with tongue and bill adapted for extracting nectar • Syn: honeysucker • Hypernyms: oscine, oscine bird • Member Holonyms: Meliphagidae, family Meliphagidae

honey fungus Click to Search honey fungus
noun a honey-colored edible mushroom commonly associated with the roots of trees in late summer and fall; do not eat raw • Syn: honey mushroom, Armillariella mellea • Hypernyms: agaric • Member Holonyms: Armillariella, genus Armillariella

honey gland Click to Search honey gland
noun a gland (often a protuberance or depression) that secretes nectar • Syn: nectary • Derivationally related forms: nectariferous (for: nectary) • Hypernyms: plant organ

honey guide Click to Search honey guide
noun small bird of tropical Africa and Asia; feeds on beeswax and honey and larvae • Hypernyms: piciform bird • Member Holonyms: Indicatoridae, family Indicatoridae

honey locust Click to Search honey locust
noun tall usually spiny North American tree having small greenish-white flowers in drooping racemes followed by long twisting seed pods; yields very hard durable reddish-brown wood; introduced to temperate Old World • Syn: Gleditsia triacanthos • Hypernyms: locust tree, locust • Member Holonyms: Gleditsia, genus Gleditsia

honey mesquite Click to Search honey mesquite
noun thorny deep-rooted drought-resistant shrub native to southwestern United States and Mexico bearing pods rich in sugar and important as livestock feed; tends to form extensive thickets • Syn: Western honey mesquite, Prosopis glandulosa • Hypernyms: mesquite, mesquit

honey mushroom Click to Search honey mushroom
noun a honey-colored edible mushroom commonly associated with the roots of trees in late summer and fall; do not eat raw • Syn: honey fungus, Armillariella mellea • Hypernyms: agaric • Member Holonyms: Armillariella, genus Armillariella

honey oil Click to Search honey oil
noun street names for ketamine • Syn: K, jet, super acid, special K, green, cat valium, super C • Hypernyms: ketamine, ketamine hydrochloride, Ketalar

honey plant Click to Search honey plant
noun a plant that furnishes nectar suitable for making honey • Hypernyms: hoya

honeybee Click to Search honeybee
noun social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces (Freq. 6) • Syn: Apis mellifera • Hypernyms: bee • Hyponyms: Africanized bee, Africanized honey bee, killer bee, Apis mellifera scutellata, Apis mellifera adansonii, black bee, German bee, Carniolan bee, Italian bee • Member Holonyms: Apis, genus Apis

honeybells Click to Search honeybells
noun African shrub having decumbent stems and slender yellow honey-scented flowers either solitary or in pairs • Syn: honey bell, Hermannia verticillata, Mahernia verticillata • Hypernyms: shrub, bush • Member Holonyms: Hermannia, genus Hermannia

honey-colored Click to Search honey-colored
adjective having the color of honey • Syn: honey-coloured • Similar to: colored, coloured, colorful

honey-coloured Click to Search honey-coloured
adjective having the color of honey • Syn: honey-colored • Similar to: colored, coloured, colorful

honeycomb Click to Search honeycomb
I noun 1. a structure of small hexagonal cells constructed from beeswax by bees and used to store honey and larvae • Hypernyms: structure, construction • Part Holonyms: beehive, hive 2. a framework of hexagonal cells resembling the honeycomb built by bees • Hypernyms: framework II verb 1. carve a honeycomb pattern into - example : The cliffs were honeycombed • Hypernyms: fret • Verb Frames: - example : Somebody ----s something - example : Something ----s something 2. penetrate thoroughly and into every part - example : the revolutionaries honeycombed the organization • Hypernyms: penetrate, perforate • Verb Frames: - example : Somebody ----s something - example : Something ----s something 3. make full of cavities, like a honeycomb • Hypernyms: change, alter, vary • Verb Frames: - example : Something ----s something

honeycomb tripe Click to Search honeycomb tripe
noun lining of the reticulum (or second stomach) of a ruminant used as food • Hypernyms: tripe

honeycombed Click to Search honeycombed
adjective pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) • Syn: alveolate, faveolate, cavitied, pitted • Similar to: cellular • Derivationally related forms: alveolus (for: alveolate)

honeycreeper Click to Search honeycreeper
noun 1. small to medium-sized finches of the Hawaiian islands • Syn: Hawaiian honeycreeper • Hypernyms: finch • Hyponyms: mamo • Member Holonyms: Drepanididae, family Drepanididae 2. small bright-colored tropical American songbird with a curved bill for sucking nectar • Hypernyms: oscine, oscine bird • Hyponyms: banana quit • Member Holonyms: Coerebidae, family Coerebidae, Dacninae, family Dacninae

honeydew Click to Search honeydew
noun the fruit of a variety of winter melon vine; a large smooth greenish-white melon with pale green flesh • Syn: honeydew melon • Hypernyms: winter melon

honeydew melon Click to Search honeydew melon
noun 1. any of a variety of muskmelon vines having fruit with a smooth white rind and white or greenish flesh that does not have a musky smell • Syn: winter melon, Persian melon, winter melon vine, Cucumis melo inodorus • Hypernyms: sweet melon, muskmelon, sweet melon vine, Cucumis melo • Part Meronyms: winter melon 2. the fruit of a variety of winter melon vine; a large smooth greenish-white melon with pale green flesh • Syn: honeydew • Hypernyms: winter melon

honeyed Click to Search honeyed
adjective 1. with honey added • Syn: honied, syrupy • Similar to: sugary 2. pleasing to the ear - example : the dulcet tones of the cello • Syn: dulcet, mellifluous, mellisonant, sweet • Similar to: melodious, melodic, musical • Derivationally related forms: sweetness (for: sweet)

honeyed words Click to Search honeyed words
noun inconsequential expressions of affection - example : he whispered sweet nothings into her ear • Syn: sweet nothings • Hypernyms: nothings

honeyflower Click to Search honeyflower
noun 1. erect bushy shrub of eastern Australia having terminal clusters of red flowers yielding much nectar • Syn: honey-flower, mountain devil, Lambertia formosa • Hypernyms: shrub, bush • Member Holonyms: Lambertia, genus Lambertia 2. Australian shrub whose flowers yield honey copiously • Syn: honey-flower, Protea mellifera • Hypernyms: protea • Member Holonyms: genus Protea

honey-flower Click to Search honey-flower
noun 1. erect bushy shrub of eastern Australia having terminal clusters of red flowers yielding much nectar • Syn: honeyflower, mountain devil, Lambertia formosa • Hypernyms: shrub, bush • Member Holonyms: Lambertia, genus Lambertia 2. Australian shrub whose flowers yield honey copiously • Syn: honeyflower, Protea mellifera • Hypernyms: protea • Member Holonyms: genus Protea

honeylike Click to Search honeylike
adjective resembling honey • Similar to: sugary

honeymoon Click to Search honeymoon
I noun 1. a holiday taken by a newly married couple (Freq. 2) • Hypernyms: vacation, holiday 2. the early (usually calm and harmonious) period of a relationship; business or political • Hypernyms: time period, period of time, period II verb spend a holiday after one's marriage (Freq. 3) - example : they plan to honeymoon in Hawai'i • Derivationally related forms: honeymooner • Hypernyms: vacation, holiday • Verb Frames: - example : Somebody ----s - example : Somebody ----s PP

honeymoon resort Click to Search honeymoon resort
noun a resort that caters to newlyweds - example : Niagra Falls is a well-known honeymoon resort • Hypernyms: resort, resort hotel, holiday resort

honeymooner Click to Search honeymooner
noun someone recently married • Syn: newlywed • Derivationally related forms: honeymoon • Hypernyms: spouse, partner, married person, mate, better half • Hyponyms: bride, groom, bridegroom

honeypot Click to Search honeypot
noun South African shrub whose flowers when open are cup-shaped resembling artichokes • Syn: king protea, Protea cynaroides • Hypernyms: protea • Member Holonyms: genus Protea

honey-scented Click to Search honey-scented
adjective smelling of honey • Similar to: odorous

honeysucker Click to Search honeysucker
noun Australasian bird with tongue and bill adapted for extracting nectar • Syn: honey eater • Hypernyms: oscine, oscine bird • Member Holonyms: Meliphagidae, family Meliphagidae

honeysuckle Click to Search honeysuckle
noun 1. shrub or vine of the genus Lonicera (Freq. 1) • Hypernyms: shrub, bush • Hyponyms: white honeysuckle, Lonicera albiflora, American fly honeysuckle, fly honeysuckle, Lonicera canadensis, Italian honeysuckle, Italian woodbine, Lonicera caprifolium, yellow honeysuckle, Lonicera dioica, Lonicera flava, hairy honeysuckle, Lonicera hirsuta, twinberry, Lonicera involucrata, Japanese honeysuckle, Lonicera japonica, Hall's honeysuckle, Lonicera japonica halliana, Morrow's honeysuckle, Lonicera morrowii, woodbine, Lonicera periclymenum, trumpet honeysuckle, coral honeysuckle, trumpet flower, trumpet vine, Lonicera sempervirens, bush honeysuckle, Tartarian honeysuckle, Lonicera tatarica, European fly honeysuckle, European honeysuckle, Lonicera xylosteum • Member Holonyms: Lonicera, genus Lonicera 2. shrubby tree with silky foliage and spikes of cylindrical yellow nectarous flowers • Syn: Australian honeysuckle, coast banksia, Banksia integrifolia • Hypernyms: banksia 3. columbine of eastern North America having long-spurred red flowers • Syn: meeting house, Aquilegia canadensis • Hypernyms: columbine, aquilegia, aquilege • Member Holonyms: genus Aquilegia

honeysuckle family Click to Search honeysuckle family
noun shrubs and small trees and woody vines • Syn: Caprifoliaceae, family Caprifoliaceae • Hypernyms: asterid dicot family • Member Holonyms: Rubiales, order Rubiales • Member Meronyms: genus Abelia, Diervilla, genus Diervilla, Leycesteria, genus Leycesteria, Linnaea, genus Linnaea, Lonicera, genus Lonicera, Symphoricarpos, genus Symphoricarpos, snowberry, common snowberry, waxberry, Symphoricarpos alba, Sambucus, genus Sambucus, Triostium, genus Triostium, Viburnum, genus Viburnum, genus Weigela

Western honey mesquite Click to Search Western honey mesquite
noun thorny deep-rooted drought-resistant shrub native to southwestern United States and Mexico bearing pods rich in sugar and important as livestock feed; tends to form extensive thickets • Syn: honey mesquite, Prosopis glandulosa • Hypernyms: mesquite, mesquit

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honeydew

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WordNet 3.0 Dictionary

Africanized honey bee

golden honey plant

honey

honey badger

honey bear

honey bell

honey berry

honey bun

honey buzzard

honey cake

honey crisp

honey eater

honey fungus

honey gland

honey guide

honey locust

honey mesquite

honey mushroom

honey oil

honey plant

honeybee

honeybells

honey-colored

honey-coloured

honeycomb

honeycomb tripe

honeycombed

honeycreeper

honeydew

honeydew melon

honeyed

honeyed words

honeyflower

honey-flower

honeylike

honeymoon

honeymoon resort

honeymooner

honeypot

honey-scented

honeysucker

honeysuckle

honeysuckle family

Western honey mesquite

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