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单词 honey crop
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honey crop
honey crop n. (a) the distended abdomen of a honeypot ant (now rare); (b) = honey stomach n.
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1882 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1881 45 The hungry ant places her mouth to that of the bearer, from whose mouth it is received as it is regurgitated from the honey crop.
1899 D. Sharp in Cambr. Nat. Hist. VI. 152 The distension is produced entirely by the overcharging of the honey-crop.
1916 E. Step Marvels of Insect Life (rev. ed.) 344 [The bee] comes back a little later with her thighs bulging with masses of pollen and her honey-crop filled with nectar.
1983 C. Little Colonisation of Land viii. 163/1 Honeybees can afford to use evaporative cooling because they carry large volumes of nectar in their honeycrop.
2001 G. C. McGavin Essent. Entomol. 272 The nectar is sucked up and stored in an anterior region of the gut called the honey crop.
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