honey /hunˈi/

1. A sweet, thick fluid elaborated by bees from the nectar of flowers
2. Its colour, golden brown
3. Nectar of flowers
4. Anything sweet like honey
5. A term of endearment
6. A person or thing that is excellent, pleasant or delightful (informal)

1. To sweeten
2. To make agreeable

To talk endearingly

Sweet

honˈeyed or honˈied adjective

1. Covered with honey
2. (often falsely) sweet
3. Seductive
4. Flattering

honˈeyless adjective

honey ant noun

One of several types of ant, esp of the genus Myrmecocystus, that feed on honey, and store it in the worker-ants, who disgorge it as necessary

honey badger noun

The ratel, a badger-like animal from India and Africa

honˈey-bag noun

An enlargement of the alimentary canal of the bee in which it carries its load of honey

honey bear noun

1. The kinkajou, which robs the nests of wild bees
2. The sloth bear
3. The Malayan bear

honey bee noun

Any of the varieties of bee living in hives and producing honey

honˈey-bird noun

1. A honey guide
2. A honey-sucker

honˈey-blob noun (dialect)

A sweet yellow gooseberry

honˈeybun or honˈeybunch noun

Terms of endearment

honey buzzard noun

A hawk (Pernis apivorus) that feeds on the larvae and honey of bees, wasps, etc

honˈey-cart, honˈey-waggon or honˈey-wagon noun

A truck for offensive refuse

honˈey-chile noun (US dialect)

A term of endearment

honˈeycomb /-kōm/ noun

1. A comb or mass of waxy cells formed by bees in which they rear their young and store honey, pollen, etc
2. Anything like a honeycomb
3. A bewildering maze (of rooms, cavities, etc)

transitive verb

1. To make like a honeycomb
2. To spread into all parts of

honˈeycombed /-kōmd/ adjective

honˈeycombing noun

Honeycomb stitch

honˈeycomb-moth noun

A bee-moth

honeycomb stitch noun

An embroidery stitch used to hold the gathers made when smocking

honey creeper noun

Any of several kinds of small, brightly-coloured S American birds which feed on nectar

honˈey-crock noun

A crock or pot of honey

honˈeydew noun

1. A sugar secretion from aphids or plants
2. Ambrosia
3. A fine sort of tobacco moistened with molasses

honeydew melon noun

A sweet-flavoured melon with smooth green or orange rind

honˈeyeater noun

Any bird of a large Australian family, the Meliphagidae, which feeds on nectar

honey fungus or honey mushroom noun

A kind of honey-coloured edible mushroom (Armillaria mellea), a parasite on the roots of trees and shrubs, which it can kill

honey guide noun

1. A species of bird of a mainly African family (Indicatoridae) which guides humans and ratels to honey bees' nests by hopping from tree to tree with a peculiar cry
2. A marking on a flower said to show the way to the nectaries

honey locust noun

An ornamental N American tree (genus Gleditsia)

honˈeymoon (obsolete honˈeymonth) noun

1. The first weeks after marriage, commonly spent on holiday, before settling down to the business of life
2. Such a holiday
3. A holiday reminiscent of a honeymoon (also second honeymoon)
4. A period of (unusual) harmony at the start of a new business relationship, term of office, etc (figurative)

intransitive verb

To spend one's honeymoon (with in)

honˈeymooner noun

honˈey-mouse noun (obsolete)

The honey possum

honˈey-mouthed adjective

1. Having a honeyed mouth or speech
2. Soft or smooth in speech

honey mushroom noun see honey fungus above

honey possum noun

A long-snouted Australian marsupial (genus Tarsipes) that feeds on honey and insects (also honey phalanger)

honˈeypot noun

1. A container for honey
2. Anything that attracts people in great numbers (figurative)
3. (in pl) a children's game
4. See also hanepoot (S Afr)

honˈey-sac noun

A honey-bag (see above)

honˈey-seed or honˈy-seed noun (Shakespeare, 2 Henry IV)

The Hostess's blunder for homicide

honˈey-stalk noun (Shakespeare)

Probably the stalk or flower of the clover

honˈey-stone noun

Mellite, a very soft yellow mineral found with lignite

honˈey-sucker noun

A honeyeater

honˈeysuckle noun

1. A climbing shrub (genus Lonicera) with mainly cream-coloured flowers, so named because honey is readily sucked from the flower (by long-tongued insects only)
2. Applied also to clover and many other plants
3. The rewarewa (NZ)

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