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Definition of Apivorous
1. Adjective. Feeding on bees.
Definition of Apivorous
1. Adjective. That feeds on bees ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Apivorous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apivorous
Literary usage of Apivorous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Insects by James Rennie, John Obadiah Westwood (1833)
"Now supposing a surface of ground of two square leagues infested in fifty places
by a small number of these apivorous females, they w'ould destroy within ..."
2. The Pictorial Handbook of London: Comprising Its Antiquities, Architecture by John Weale (1854)
"... (swallow- tailed kite), tuteo lagopus (rough-legged buzzard), pernis
apivorous (honey buzzard), are more rare in that district. ..."
3. Proceedings by Bristol Naturalists' Society (1876)
"F. apivorous - Honey Buzzard - Indigenous - rare (Two at Leigh. No record of date.
GH) F. cyaneus Hen Harrier - Indigenous - rare (Has occurred some years ..."
4. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne: In the County of Southampton by Gilbert White, Edward Turner Bennett, James Edmund Harting (1891)
"Any insect-eating bird would do the same; and therefore I have often wondered
that the accurate Mr. Ray should call one species of buzzard Buteo apivorous ..."
5. Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology by Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England), Walter L. Nash (1885)
"... is also called "Terror" of heaven, which probably implies some bird of prey.
I would therefore suggest the honey buzzard ( Pernis apivorous), ..."
6. The Zoologist: A Popular Miscellany of Natural History by Edward Newman (1844)
"... but as I am not aware that Buteo vulgaris was ever known so to regale itself,
I am led to infer that the bird found so engaged was B. apivorous. ..."
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