Melliferous

//mɪˈlɪfəɹəs//

Synonyms for "melliferous" (15 found)

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Adjective(1 words)

Strong matches (5)

Related words (7)

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27 translations across 14 languages.

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Catalan

4 entries
  • mel·lífer adj (of a plant or its parts: bearing any substance which is collected by bees to produce honey)
  • mel·lífer adj (producing honey)
  • mel·lífic adj (of a plant or its parts: bearing any substance which is collected by bees to produce honey)
  • mel·lífic adj (producing honey)

Czech

1 entries
  • medonosný adj (of a plant or its parts: bearing any substance which is collected by bees to produce honey)

Finnish

3 entries
  • hunaja- (hunajakasvi) adj (of a plant or its parts: bearing any substance which is collected by bees to produce honey)
  • hunajaa tuottava adj (producing honey)
  • mesi- (mesikasvi) adj (of a plant or its parts: bearing any substance which is collected by bees to produce honey)

French

2 entries
  • mellifère adj (of a plant or its parts: bearing any substance which is collected by bees to produce honey)
  • mellifère adj (producing honey)

German

2 entries
  • honigend adj (of a plant or its parts: bearing any substance which is collected by bees to produce honey)
  • honigproduzierend adj (of a plant or its parts: bearing any substance which is collected by bees to produce honey)

Hungarian

2 entries
  • mézelő adj (of a plant or its parts: bearing any substance which is collected by bees to produce honey)
  • mézelő adj (producing honey)

Ido

1 entries
  • mielifanta adj (of a plant or its parts: bearing any substance which is collected by bees to produce honey)

Italian

2 entries
  • mellifero adj (of a plant or its parts: bearing any substance which is collected by bees to produce honey)
  • mielifero adj (of a plant or its parts: bearing any substance which is collected by bees to produce honey)

Latin

1 entries
  • mellifer adj (producing honey)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • melífero adj (of a plant or its parts: bearing any substance which is collected by bees to produce honey)
  • melífero adj (producing honey)

Romanian

1 entries
  • melifer adj (of a plant or its parts: bearing any substance which is collected by bees to produce honey)

Russian

1 entries
  • медоно́сный adj (of a plant or its parts: bearing any substance which is collected by bees to produce honey)

Spanish

4 entries
  • melífero adj (of a plant or its parts: bearing any substance which is collected by bees to produce honey)
  • melífero adj (producing honey)
  • melífico adj (of a plant or its parts: bearing any substance which is collected by bees to produce honey)
  • melífico adj (producing honey)

Welsh

1 entries
  • melddwyn adj (producing honey)

Sample sentences

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[I]t vvas impoſſible to tell the Number of Palm-Trees, Olive-Trees, and Fig-trees [in Canaan]; beſides the Paſturage for raiſing innumerable Cattle; and vvas the great Market, for the Arabians and all the Countries about. And being Mountanous, could not but abound vvith Melliferous Plants of the beſt kind.

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Pliny [the Elder] ſays this flovver [the anemone] […] differs alſo from ranunclulus in not having a melliferous pore on the clavv of each petal.

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Thus, for the due fertilization of the common Barberry (Berberis vulgaris) it is necessary that the irritable stamens should be brought into contact with the pistil by the application of some stimulus to the base of the filament; but this would never take place were not insects attracted by the melliferous glands of the flower to insinuate themselves amongst the filaments, and thus while seeking their own food unknowingly fulfil the intentions of nature in another department.

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In the Yucatan of Mexico, most resource-poor farmers manage garden, overstory, and edge vegetation to generate plant products for household use and income from non-timber forest products such as honey. Competing growth is removed around 34 melliferous plant species at field edges and in neighboring woodlands. This pruning requires in-depth knowledge of flowering phenology of melliferous and polliniferous species in the area.

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