melliferous

American  

[muh-lif-er-uhs] / məˈlɪf ər əs /

adjective

1. yielding or producing honey.

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melliferous British  

/ mɪˈlɪfɪk, mɪˈlɪfərəs /

adjective

1. forming or producing honey

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Etymology

Origin of melliferous

1650–60; < Latin mellifer honey-bearing ( melli-, stem of mel honey + -fer -fer ) + -ous

Example Sentences

Grelet was a skilled apiarist, and replenished his melliferous flocks by wild swarms enticed from the forests.

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We find even to-day, among the melliferous hymenoptera, all the stages of progressive civilisation of our own domestic bee.

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None of the melliferous clan, in my neighbourhood at least, is stirring as early as she is.

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The great idle drones, asleep in unconscious groups on the melliferous walls, are rudely torn from their slumbers by an army of wrathful virgins.

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The bees," says De Layens, "would seem to be perfectly informed as to the locality, the relative melliferous value, and the distance of every melliferous plant within a certain radius from the hive.

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