Already he had the melliferous taste of victory on his tongue. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock]
Philogynist elsewhere in the world, px is busy like a melliferous thing. From Wordnik.com. [Philogynist] Reference
"Is it melliferous, then?" asked Vic, with a smile. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood] Reference
The Nectary, or melliferous part of a vegetable, peculiar to the flower. From Wordnik.com. [The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ...] Reference
Honey is procured by steeping the cones of the Banksia or other melliferous flowers in water. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Complete] Reference
Grelet was a skilled apiarist, and replenished his melliferous flocks by wild swarms enticed from the forests. From Wordnik.com. [White Shadows in the South Seas] Reference
We find even to-day, among the melliferous hymenoptera, all the stages of progressive civilisation of our own domestic bee. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Bee] Reference
The great idle drones, asleep in unconscious groups on the melliferous walls, are rudely torn from their slumbers by an army of wrathful virgins. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Bee] Reference
His eyes were dim with pleasure long drawn out; they saw nothing, and it was some moments before the pallor and pain of Frank's face dispelled the melliferous. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Fletcher A Novel] Reference
The busy bee, afraid of the cruel persecutions of man had here sought a secure retreat to pursue, unmolested, her melliferous employ, and fill the dark chambers of her oaken palaces year by year with honeyed stores. From Wordnik.com. [ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE] Reference
"The bees," says De Layens, "would seem to be perfectly informed as to the locality, the relative melliferous value, and the distance of every melliferous plant within a certain radius from the hive. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Bee] Reference
"If we carefully note the different directions in which these foragers fly, and observe in detail the harvest they gather from the various plants around, we shall find that the workers distribute themselves over the flowers in proportion not only to the numbers of flowers of one species, but also to their melliferous value. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Bee] Reference
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