† schadonn.
Obsolete.
The larva of a bee.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > larva
schadon1623
bee-grub1672
bee-maggot1686
brood1754
1623 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie (rev. ed.) v. sig. I3v The weather keeping them [sc. Bees] in, they can doe nothing but breed and hatch their schadons.
1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects 71 That no schadon..can break through into a cell on the other side.
1736 N. Bailey Dict. Domesticum 93 The skaddons or young bees that are in the combs.
1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Aug. xxiii. 107 Else the Honey will be corrupted by the Shaddens in the Combs.
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