bee-breadn.

Forms: Old English béa-, béo-, bí-bread, Middle English bei-; 1600s– bee-bread.

Etymology: < bee n.¹ + bread n.: compare Middle High German bîe brôt, German bienen brot. The modern word is probably a new combination, not historically related to the Old English, which had also a different sense.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈbee-ˌbread.

†1. originally. In Old English as in the other Teutonic languages: Honey-comb with the honey in it. Obsolete.

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c825 Vesp. Psalter cxviii. 103 Hu swoete..ofer hunig & biabread.

a1000 Boeth. Metr. xii. 17 Þynceþ..huniges bí-bread healfe þý swetre.

c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xxiv. 42 Dǽl gebrǽddes fisces and béobréad [Hatton bei-brad].

2. Pollen, or a compound of honey and pollen, consumed by the nurse-bees.

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the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > bees' food

bee-bread1657

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1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects i. xv. 95 [Bees] gather as often Bee-bread as honey.

1752 Philos. Trans. 1749–50 (Royal Soc.) 46 538 A Bee loading the Farina, Bee-Bread, or crude Wax, upon its Legs.

1815 R. Huish Treat. Bees (1817) xi. 147 The crude wax, which is called..in English Bee-bread.

1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1828) I. xi. 376 Little or no honey is collected until an ample store of bee-bread has been laid up for food.

1868 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands xxiii. 436 Bee~bread..is a compound of honey and the pollen of flowers.

figurative.1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 66 He had..been feeding on the bee-bread of Shakespeare.

3. Applied locally to certain plants yielding nectar: viz. the White Clover, and Borage. (Britten and Holland.)

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	bee-bread
释义	bee-breadn. Forms: Old English béa-, béo-, bí-bread, Middle English bei-; 1600s– bee-bread. Etymology: < bee n.¹ + bread n.: compare Middle High German bîe brôt, German bienen brot. The modern word is probably a new combination, not historically related to the Old English, which had also a different sense.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈbee-ˌbread. †1. originally. In Old English as in the other Teutonic languages: Honey-comb with the honey in it. Obsolete. ΚΠ c825 Vesp. Psalter cxviii. 103 Hu swoete..ofer hunig & biabread. a1000 Boeth. Metr. xii. 17 Þynceþ..huniges bí-bread healfe þý swetre. c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xxiv. 42 Dǽl gebrǽddes fisces and béobréad [Hatton bei-brad]. 2. Pollen, or a compound of honey and pollen, consumed by the nurse-bees. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > bees' food bee-bread1657 bread1682 1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects i. xv. 95 [Bees] gather as often Bee-bread as honey. 1752 Philos. Trans. 1749–50 (Royal Soc.) 46 538 A Bee loading the Farina, Bee-Bread, or crude Wax, upon its Legs. 1815 R. Huish Treat. Bees (1817) xi. 147 The crude wax, which is called..in English Bee-bread. 1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1828) I. xi. 376 Little or no honey is collected until an ample store of bee-bread has been laid up for food. 1868 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands xxiii. 436 Bee~bread..is a compound of honey and the pollen of flowers. figurative.1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 66 He had..been feeding on the bee-bread of Shakespeare. 3. Applied locally to certain plants yielding nectar: viz. the White Clover, and Borage. (Britten and Holland.) This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.c825
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