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Definition of Honey guide
1. Noun. Small bird of tropical Africa and Asia; feeds on beeswax and honey and larvae.
Definition of Honey guide
1. Noun. (botany) Colorful spots or stripes on a flower that indicate to insects where the nectar is produced. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Honey Guide
Literary usage of Honey guide
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Insect Architecture by James Rennie (1830)
"The honey-guide, so far from being alarmed at the presence of man, ... A person
invited by the honey-guide seldom refuses to follow it onwards till it stop- ..."
2. The Uncivilized Races of Men in All Countries of the World by John George Wood (1882)
"It is remarkable that both the ratei and the honey-guide are so thickly defended,
the one with fur, and the other with feathers, that the stings of the bees ..."
3. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa: Including a Sketch of by David Livingstone (1858)
"Beehives and the Honey-guide. — Instinct of Trees.—Climbers.—The Ox Sinbad.—Absence
of Thorns in the Forests.—Plant peculiar to a forsaken Garden. ..."
4. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"honey guide, a bird of the cuckoo family, and genus indicator (Vieill.). The bill
is short, broad at the base, with the culmen curved ; wings long and ..."
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