| 单词 | queen substance |
| 释义 | queen substancenouna pheromone secreted from the mandibular glands of a queen honeybee and smelled, eaten, and absorbed by the worker bees, having the effect of preventing them from producing or rearing rival queens. Origin of queen substanceFirst recorded in 1950–55 Words nearby queen substancequeen's scout, queen's shilling, Queen's speech, Queenstown, Queen Street Farmer, queen substance, queen's ware, queen truss, queer, queer-bashing, queer fish Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for queen substancequeen substance nouna pheromone secreted by queen honeybees and consumed by the workers, in whom it causes suppression of egg-laying Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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