A substance (also distinctively called beeswax, n.) produced by bees, and used by them as the material of the honeycomb. It is a secretion of…
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| 释义 | the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > wax (9) wax805 A substance (also distinctively called beeswax, n.) produced by bees, and used by them as the material of the honeycomb. It is a secretion of… virgin waxc1400 Originally: fresh, new, or unused bees-wax, sometimes that produced by the first swarm of bees. In later and more general use: a purified or fine… medewax1416 A kind of beeswax. Cf. virgin wax, n. pissoceros1658 The mixture of resin and wax of which the second foundation of a bee's honeycomb was formerly thought to be made. mitys1706 = propolis, n. maiden-wax1726 = virgin wax, n.; wax taken from the comb without melting. Subcategories:— sac on abdomen for receiving (1) — bee that makes (2) |
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