beebread

[ bee-bred ]

noun

a mixture of pollen and honey stored by bees and fed to their young.

Origin of beebread

before 900; Middle English be bred, Old English. See bee¹, bread

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How to use beebread in a sentence

In the result there are several different kinds of bee-bread, some being more stimulating or nutritious than others.
Animal Intelligence | George J. Romanes
It should enable the Apiarian to remove the excess of bee-bread from old stocks.
Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee | L. L. Langstroth
Examine for honey-comb, bee-bread, worker brood, queen cells and drone cells.
An Elementary Study of Insects | Leonard Haseman
Then the grub lets go, and proceeds to eat all the "bee-bread" which the bee had stored up so carefully for her own little ones.
The Animal World, A Book of Natural History | Theodore Wood
Bee-bread is made of the dust of flowers, with which the bee gets covered in collecting honey.
The Nursery, June 1873, Vol. XIII. | Various

British Dictionary definitions for beebread

beebread

/ (ˈbiːˌbrɛd) /

noun

a mixture of pollen and nectar prepared by worker bees and fed to the larvae: Also called: ambrosia

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