英语词汇“bee-bread”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	bee-bread
释义	ˈbee-ˌbread Forms: 1 béa-, béo-, bí-bread, 2 bei-; 7– bee-bread. [f. bee + bread: cf. MHG. bîe brôt, G. bienen brot. The modern word is probably a new combination, not historically related to the OE., which had also a different sense.] †1. orig. In OE. as in the other Teutonic languages: Honey-comb with the honey in it. Obs. c825Vesp. Psalter cxviii. 103 Hu swoete..ofer huniᵹ & biabread.a1000Boeth. Metr. xii. 17 Þynceþ..huniᵹes bí-bread healfe þý swetre.c1000Ags. Gosp. Luke xxiv. 42 Dǽl ᵹebrǽddes fisces and béobréad [Hatton bei-brad]. 2. Pollen, or a compound of honey and pollen, consumed by the nurse-bees. 1657S. Purchas Pol. Flying Ins. i. xv. 95 [Bees] gather as often Bee-bread as honey.1750Phil. Trans. XLVI. 538 A Bee loading the Farina, Bee-Bread, or crude Wax, upon its Legs.1815R. Huish Treat. Bees xi. (1817) 147 The crude wax, which is called..in English Bee-bread.1816Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xi. (1828) I. 376 Little or no honey is collected until an ample store of bee-bread has been laid up for food.1868Wood Homes without H. xxiii. 436 Bee⁓bread..is a compound of honey and the pollen of flowers. fig.1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 66 He had..been feeding on the bee-bread of Shakespeare. 3. Applied locally to certain plants yielding nectar: viz. the White Clover, and Borage. (Britten and Holland.)
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