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Definition of Honeylike
1. Adjective. Resembling honey.
Definition of Honeylike
1. Adjective. Like honey in taste, texture, or appearance. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Honeylike
Literary usage of Honeylike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Webster's Elementary-school Dictionary: Abridged from Webster's New by Noah Webster (1914)
"A sweet sticky fluid, the nectar of flowers aa collected and worked up for food
by certain insects, esp. bees; also, any similar fluid. 2. honeylike quality ..."
2. Words and Their Ways in English Speech by James Bradstreet Greenough, George Lyman Kittredge (1901)
"... 'honeylike' (from met ' honey,' whence melli-fluous, ' honey-flowing,' which
we use of a sweet sound). Rum, the name of a third product of sugar-cane, ..."
3. How to Know Wild Fruits: A Guide to Plants when Not in Flower by Means of by Maude Gridley Peterson (1914)
"... honeylike. The ovate calyx lobes support the fruit at its base. It is yellow
or amber-colored and usually tinged with red on the surface exposed to the ..."
4. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1918)
"Grown at 37°C., we have a light brown or yellowish honeylike or mucilaginous
growth, which by the end of a week spreads out and takes a cuprous oxide like ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1880)
"A. Villiers draws attention to a honeylike substance which is found in Ethiopia
in holes and cavities in the ground, and is said to be the product or ..."
6. Mind in the Lower Animals, in Health and Disease by William Lauder Lindsay (1880)
"Certain other ants keep brown scale insects for the sake of their honeylike
secretion. To use Belt's expression, they ' farm' them, just as we do milch cows ..."
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