Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A receptacle of various kinds, made of wax or other substance, and often of considerable size, in which many species of wild bees store their honey.
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Examples
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Despite the complete lack of statistical evidence that the billion dollar honey-pot for the oil industry produces any noticeable increase in oil production, the flow of money continues to this day.
Alternative Energy and Rent-Seeking, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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They struggled and squabbled and ran hither and thither like ants about a honey-pot.
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When pressed, he offers a qualification: the ants are a "compound" character based on four different species — fire ants, harvesting ants, honey-pot ants and spiny tree ants.
'The Iliad'—With Ants? Alexandra Alter 2010
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The martial tournaments he describes, where soldier ants from rival colonies parade in front of one another and push each other to assess each other's strengths, are based on honey-pot ant behavior, he says.
'The Iliad'—With Ants? Alexandra Alter 2010
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The martial tournaments he describes, where soldier ants from rival colonies parade in front of one another and push each other to assess each other's strengths, are based on honey-pot ant behavior, he says.
'The Iliad'—With Ants? Alexandra Alter 2010
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When pressed, he offers a qualification: the ants are a "compound" character based on four different species — fire ants, harvesting ants, honey-pot ants and spiny tree ants.
'The Iliad'—With Ants? Alexandra Alter 2010
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When pressed, he offers a qualification: the ants are a "compound" character based on four different species — fire ants, harvesting ants, honey-pot ants and spiny tree ants.
'The Iliad'—With Ants? Alexandra Alter 2010
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More things to experiment with: pumpkin and spinach powders (shown here in small honey-pot jars); tomato and coconut powders in 1. 5-ounce resealable bags; habanero, blueberry and sweet onion sugars, and one of those lidded salt cellars that Alton Brown's always snapping shut on "Good Eats."
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The martial tournaments he describes, where soldier ants from rival colonies parade in front of one another and push each other to assess each other's strengths, are based on honey-pot ant behavior, he says.
'The Iliad'—With Ants? Alexandra Alter 2010
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(Denise was so beautiful that men flocked round her like bees round a honey-pot, but hey, that's another story.)
Meeting Oshun Sharon Bakar 2005
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