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The Honey mesquite (Prosopis juliflora), a small tree found from California to Buenos Ayres; also, its sweet, pulpy pods. A valuable gum, resembling gum arabic, is collected from the tree in Texas and Mexico.

Deeply pitted, like a honeycomb.

A cell in a honeycomb.

Of each; an equal quantity; as, wine and honey, ana (or, contracted, aa), ., that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces. An apothecary with a . . . long bill of anas. Dryden.

Any aphid from which ants obtain honeydew.

Various kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they secrete. See Aphips.

Rearing of bees for their honey and wax.

The scientific or systematic study of honey bees.

A genus of insects of the order Hymenoptera, including the common honeybee (Apis mellifica) and other related species. See Honeybee.

A genus of showy flowering shrubs, mostly natives of China or of North America; false honeysuckle. The genus is scarcely distinct from Rhododendron.

large black seaweed (Alaria esculenta) sometimes eaten in Europe; -- also called murlins, honeyware, and henware.

To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag. A bee bagged with his honeyed venom. Dryden.

An insect of the order Hymenoptera, and family Apidæ (the honeybees), or family Andrenidæ (the solitary bees.) See Honeybee.

shortest line from one place to another, like that of a bee to its hive when loaded with honey; an air line. "A bee line for the brig." Kane.

A brown, bitter substance found in some of the cells of honeycomb. It is made chiefly from the pollen of flowers, which is collected by bees as food for their young.

An Australian honeysucker (Myzomela sanguineolata); -- so called from the bright red color of the male bird.

The blue-cheeked honeysucker of Australia.

A liquor made of ale and honey fermented, with spices, etc. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Figuratively; Honeyed; sweet; flattering. Let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp. Shak.

The woodbine or honeysuckle. Spenser.