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单词 wild honey
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honey /hunˈi/

noun
  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)
transitive verb (honˈeying; honˈeyed /-id/)
  1. To sweeten
  2. To make agreeable
intransitive verb (Shakespeare)

To talk endearingly

adjective (Shakespeare)

Sweet

ORIGIN: OE hunig; Ger Honig; ON hunang

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)

honˈey-suckle or honˈy-suckle adjective (Shakespeare, 2 Henry IV)

The Hostess's blunder for homicidal

honˈey-sweet adjective

Sweet as honey

honˈey-tongued adjective

  1. Soft, pleasing, persuasive, or seductive in speech
  2. Eloquent

honˈey-trap noun

A scheme used to entrap someone, involving seduction or some other sexual act that could shame the person involved if the subsequent threat of exposure were carried out

honey-wagon see honey-cart above.

virgin honey

Honey that flows of itself from the comb

wild honey

Honey made by wild bees

wild1 /wīld/

adjective
  1. Being in a state of nature, not tamed or cultivated
  2. Of an undomesticated or uncultivated kind
  3. Uncivilized, savage
  4. Desolate, rugged, inhospitable, uninhabitable or uninhabited
  5. Tempestuous
  6. Violent
  7. Fierce
  8. Passionate
  9. Frantically excited
  10. Unrestrained, uncontrolled, out of control
  11. Licentious
  12. Agitated
  13. Shy
  14. Distracted, distraught
  15. Furious
  16. Intensely enthusiastic, eager, keen (with about)
  17. Strong and irrational
  18. Fantastic
  19. Crazy, impracticable
  20. Enjoyable, terrific (slang)
  21. Disordered, dishevelled
  22. Unconsidered, rough, random, approximate
  23. Wide of the mark
  24. Fresh and natural
  25. (with cap) applied to the extreme Evangelical party in the Church of Scotland (historical)
  26. (of a playing card) having any value desired
adverb

In a wild manner

noun
  1. (also in pl) an uncultivated region
  2. A wilderness or desert (also figurative)
  3. An empty region of air or water (poetic)
  4. (in sing) a wild animal's or plant's natural environment or life in it
ORIGIN: OE wilde; common Gmc word

wīldˈing noun

  1. That which grows wild or without cultivation
  2. A wild crab-apple
  3. A garden plant self-sown, an escape
  4. A wild animal
  5. See go wilding below
adjective

Uncultivated or wild

wildˈish adjective

Somewhat wild

wildˈly adverb

wildˈness noun

wild animals plural noun

Undomesticated animals

wild ass noun

Any of several Asiatic or African asses, such as the onager, living naturally in a wild state

wild birds plural noun

Birds not domesticated, esp those protected at certain seasons under the Acts of 1880 onwards

wild boar noun

A wild pig, esp Sus scrofa, from which most domestic pigs are derived

wildˈ-born adjective

Born in the wild

wild card noun

  1. A person allowed to compete in a sports event even though lacking the stipulated qualifications, etc
  2. (the offering of) such a chance to compete
  3. A character that can stand for any other character or group of characters in a file, etc (computing)

wildˈcat noun

  1. An undomesticated species of cat (Felis sylvestris) native to Europe
  2. Any of various small wild animals of the cat family
  3. The skins of these
  4. A quick-tempered, fierce person
  5. A speculative or unsound financial scheme (US)
  6. Someone who takes part in such a scheme (US)
  7. An exploratory oil well (US)

adjective

  1. (of a business scheme, etc) haphazard, reckless, unsound financially
  2. (of a strike) unauthorized by union officials
  3. (of an oil well) exploratory (US)

transitive verb and intransitive verb (US)

To drill an experimental well in an area of unknown productivity in search of oil, gas, ore, etc

wildˈcatter noun (US).

wild cherry noun

Any uncultivated tree bearing cherries, such as the gean (Prunus avium), or its fruit

wild child noun (informal)

A young person who enjoys a hedonistic lifestyle

wild dog noun

Any wild species of the dog genus or family, such as the dhole, the dingo, etc

wild duck

See under duck1

wild-eyedˈ adjective

  1. Looking angrily distressed or distracted
  2. (of an idea or plan) unrealistic, impracticable

wildˈfire noun

  1. A sweeping, destructive fire
  2. A needfire
  3. Any of various inflammable materials used in warfare, such as Greek fire (historical) (like wildfire extremely fast)
  4. Lightning without thunder
  5. A disease of sheep
  6. Will-o'-the-wisp

wildˈfowl noun

  1. The birds of the duck tribe
  2. Game birds

wildˈfowler noun

wildˈfowling noun

The pursuit of wildfowl

wild ginger noun

A N American plant (Asarum canadense) whose root is sometimes used as a substitute for ginger

wild goose noun

  1. A wild or feral bird of the goose kind
  2. A flighty or foolish person
  3. (in pl, Wild Geese; historical) Irish Jacobites who migrated to the Continent after the abdication of James II, esp those who joined the French army

wild-goose chase noun

  1. A search that is doomed, esp for reasons unknown to the searcher, to be unsuccessful
  2. Orig a chase hither and thither of the follow-my-leader kind

wild grape noun

  1. A grapevine (Vitis or Muscadinia) in the wild state, or its fruit
  2. Coccoloba (see grapetree under grape1)

wild honey noun

The honey of wild bees

Wild Hunt noun

In Germanic legend, a host of phantoms rushing along, accompanied by the shouting of huntsmen and the baying of dogs

Wild Huntsman noun

The leader of a Wild Hunt

wild hyacinth noun (esp Scot)

The bluebell, Endymion or Scilla nonscriptus

wild indigo noun

Any of several plants of different genera belonging to the same family (Papilionaceae) as indigo, such as an American tumbleweed (Baptisia tinctoria)

wildˈland noun

Land completely uncultivated

wildˈlife noun

Wild animals, birds, etc collectively

wildlife park noun

A safari park containing native or non-native animals

wild man noun

  1. Someone uncivilized, a savage (old)
  2. A man of extreme or radical views in politics

wild mare noun

  1. A seesaw
  2. An instrument of punishment, the horse

wild oat noun

Any of several tall perennial weeds related to the cultivated oat, eg Avena fatua

wild olive noun

The oleaster (qv)

wild rice noun see zizania

wild service noun

A tree, Sorbus torminalis, of the same genus as the service tree

wild silk noun

  1. Silk from wild silkworms
  2. Short-fibred silk imitating this

wild thyme see thyme

wild track noun

A soundtrack recorded independently of a photographic track, but used in editing

wild type noun (biology)

The form of a species typically occurring under natural breeding conditions, as distinct from mutant types

wild water noun

The foaming water in rapids, etc

Wild West noun

The western United States in the days of the first settlers, chiefly cattlemen and goldminers, before the establishment of law and order

Wild-West Show noun

A performance of roping or riding of steers, shooting, etc by (people dressed as) cowboys

wild Williams noun (dialect)

Ragged Robin

wildˈwood noun

Wild uncultivated, or unfrequented, woodland (also adjective)

go wilding (US)

Of a gang of youths, or as a member of such a gang, to attack violently, by beating, robbing and raping

run wild

  1. To take to loose living
  2. To live or grow in freedom from constraint or control
  3. To revert to the wild or uncultivated state

sow one's wild oats see under oat

wild and woolly

  1. Unpolished
  2. Unrestrained
  3. Suggestive of the Wild West, lawless
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