| 单词 | royal jelly |
| 释义 | > as lemmasroyal jelly royal jelly n. Bee-keeping a substance secreted by honeybee workers and fed by them to larvae, esp. to those being raised as potential queens. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > royal jelly royal jelly1806 1806 J. G. Dalyell tr. F. Huber New Observ. Nat. Hist. Bees v. 99 A great quantity of royal jelly is then prepared for feeding the larvae destined to replace her [sc. the queen]. 1886 F. R. Cheshire Bees & Bee-keeping I. vi. 82 In the case of the queen larva..that secretion, commonly, though, as I hold, erroneously, called royal jelly, is added unstintingly. 1947 A. D. Imms Outl. Entomol. (ed. 3) iv. 153 The young larvae are first nourished upon so-called ‘royal jelly’ that is produced by the pharyngeal glands of worker bees. 2004 G. McKeith You are what you Eat ix. 206/1 Royal jelly contains an antibiotic almost a quarter as active as penicillin, but without the side effects. < as lemmas |
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