beebread

[ bee-bred ]

/ ˈbiˌbrɛd /

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noun

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

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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

The tasteless bread was transformed into a sweet cake that included ingredients, such as dried fruit and marzipan.
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Against this backdrop, Paul breaking bread with Sharpton may be too much for Republican primary voters to watch or stomach.
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“Ovens using gas cylinders were set up to make bread under bridges, and nursing stations appeared, offering medicines,” he writes.
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For example, Kuwait recently put a limit the allowable amount of sodium in bread to lower blood pressure.
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“I knew Boyfriend would never really have its chance unless it became my bread-and-butter,” she says.
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I tell you, madam, most distinctly and emphatically, that it is bread pudding and the meanest kind at that.'
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In Tiefurt we partook of a magnificent collation consisting of a mug of beer, brown bread and sausage!
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Newhall Street, and a new thoroughfare made in continuation of Bread Street.
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Death comes in, the bread at the feast turns black, the hound falls down—and so on.
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About an hour after resuming their walk, the major went off in hot pursuit of an enormous bee, which he saw humming round a bush.
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British Dictionary definitions for beebread

beebread

/ (ˈbiːˌbrɛd) /

noun

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

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