Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Eating honey; subsisting on honey, as many insects, both in the perfect state and as larvæ.

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  • Conversely, is the mellivorous larva killed by animal food?

    More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

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