honey-eating

There's also the Anglicized pronunciation of the county in which San Antonio sits: Bexar is pronounced not like BEH-har or even BEKS-ar, but instead as a homophone of the honey-eating ursine mammal.

languagehat.com: PRONUNCIATION WARS IN TEXAS. 2005

Then, when the sun shines, there will be no lingering red admiral, nor blue fly or fly of any colour, nor yellow wasp, nor any honey-eating or late honey-gathering insect that will not be here to feed on the ivy's sweetness.

Afoot in England 1881

Picture the honey-eating grub floating on liquid provisions and fouling them at intervals with its excretions!

Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Many of the smaller birds build on the branches of the bull's-horn thorn, which is always thickly covered with small stinging honey-eating ants, that would not allow the Ecitons to ascend these trees.

The Naturalist in Nicaragua Thomas Belt 1855

There are obviously more than two groups of people who ask about veganism, but two of the biggest are those who are genuinely interested and who will appreciate rational discussion, honest answers, and ethical consistency, and those who ask about veganism only to sneer and chide and won’t think veganism is possible regardless of ambivalence to honey-eating.

2009 July « paper fruit 2009

There are obviously more than two groups of people who ask about veganism, but two of the biggest are those who are genuinely interested and who will appreciate rational discussion, honest answers, and ethical consistency, and those who ask about veganism only to sneer and chide and won’t think veganism is possible regardless of ambivalence to honey-eating.

going vegan, staying vegan « paper fruit 2009

Spotted Sapyga, a honey-eating relative of the flesh-eating Scolia. [

The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869