Honey

Honey

Honey ( /ˈhʌni/) is a sweet food made by bees using nectar from flowers. The variety produced by honey bees (the genus Apis) is the one most commonly referenced. It is the type of honey collected by beekeepers and consumed by humans. Honey produced by other bees and insects has distinctly different properties.

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Famous quotes containing the word honey:

    “I, of ladies most deject and wretched,
    That sucked the honey of his music vows,
    Now see that noble and most sovereign reason
    Like sweet bells jangled out of tune and harsh.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The honey of heaven may or may not come,
    But that of earth both comes and goes at once.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “I eat my peas with honey,”
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