Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A nutritious substance secreted by the pharyngeal glands of worker bees that serves as food for all young larvae and as the only food for larvae that will develop into queen bees.
Wiktionary
- n. A substance secreted by bees to aid in the development of immature or young bees, called royal jelly because it is supplied in extra measure to those young that will become queen bees.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a secretion of the pharyngeal glands of bees that is fed to very young larvae and to bees destined to be queens
Examples
“If there is a comparable odor, it is, indeed, the moldly inner sanctum of some fermenting, bursting hive; but beet pollen is honey squared, royal jelly cubed, nectar raised to the nth power; the intensified secretions of the Earth's apiarian gland, reeking of ancient bridal chambers and intimacies half as old as time.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘royal jelly’.
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AGRI - apiculture
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My Little Phonies
Names for the next generation of My Little Ponies. Inspired by Star's list.
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
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Beekeeping
Fun apicultural words & terms
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Charlatania
Words and phrases from Pope Brock's entirely awesome book, "Charlatan".
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A hive for the honey bee
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee,
And live alone ...absconding swarm, afterswarm, alighting board, american foulbrood, apiary, apiculture, apis mellifera, bee blower, bee bread, bee brush, beehive, beeswax and 71 more...
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animalistic
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