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:

    “Maid
    of the luminous grey-eyes,
    Mistress
    of honey and marble implacable white thighs
    and Goddess,
    chaste daughter of Zeus.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “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)

    “Can honey distill such fragrance
    as your bright hair.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)