queen substance

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noun

a pheromone secreted from the mandibular glands of a queen honeybee and smelled, eaten, and absorbed by the worker bees, having the effect of preventing them from producing or rearing rival queens.

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Origin of queen substance

First recorded in 1950–55

Words nearby queen substance

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How to use queen substance in a sentence

Scalise spoke briefly, adding little of substance, saying that the people back home know him best.
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The reigning queen of hip-hop treads the boards in her teen years.
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The last time there was a raid of this scale was in 2001, when 52 men were arrested on Queen Boat, a floating disco on the Nile.
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When they invade new territory, populations are low, and the queen has limited mate options.
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Even the queen saw fit to honor him with the Order of the British Empire at Buckingham Palace in 2008.
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All along the highways and by-paths of our literature we encounter much that pertains to this "queen of plants."
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A fancy came into my head that I would entertain the king and queen with an English tune upon this instrument.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
In withdrawing aside sorrow remaineth: and the substance of the poor is according to his heart.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
Q was a Queen, who wore a silk slip; R was a Robber, and wanted a whip.
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Its backbone should be the study of biology and its substance should be the threshing out of the burning questions of our day.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

British Dictionary definitions for queen substance

queen substance

noun

a pheromone secreted by queen honeybees and consumed by the workers, in whom it causes suppression of egg-laying

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