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What (who) is honey - definition

SWEET FOOD MADE BY BEES MOSTLY USING NECTAR FROM FLOWERS
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  • Creamed honey: the honey on the left is fresh, and the honey on the right has been aged at room temperature for two years. The Maillard reaction produces considerable differences in the color and flavor of the aged honey, which remains edible.
  • Crystallized honey: The inset shows a close-up of the honey, showing the individual glucose grains in the fructose mixture.
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  • Extraction from a honeycomb
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  • French honey from different floral sources, with visible differences in color and texture
  • Sealed frame of honey
  • A variety of honey flavors and container sizes and styles from the 2008 [[Texas State Fair]]

honey         
(honeys)
1.
Honey is a sweet, sticky, yellowish substance that is made by bees.
N-VAR
2.
You call someone honey as a sign of affection. (mainly AM)
Honey, I don't really think that's a good idea.
N-VOC
Honey         
·noun Sweet one;
- a term of endearment.
II. Honey ·noun That which is sweet or pleasant, like honey.
III. Honey ·vt To make agreeable; to cover or sweeten with, or as with, honey.
IV. Honey ·noun A sweet viscid fluid, ·esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb.
V. Honey ·vi To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments; also, to be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to Fawn.
honey         
¦ noun (plural honeys)
1. a sweet, sticky yellowish-brown fluid made by bees and other insects from flower nectar.
2. informal an excellent example of something.
an attractive girl.
3. (usu. as a form of address) darling; sweetheart.
Origin
OE hunig, of Gmc origin.

Wikipedia

Honey

Honey is a sweet and viscous substance made by several bees, the best-known of which are honey bees. Honey is made and stored to nourish bee colonies. Bees produce honey by gathering and then refining the sugary secretions of plants (primarily floral nectar) or the secretions of other insects, like the honeydew of aphids. This refinement takes place both within individual bees, through regurgitation and enzymatic activity, as well as during storage in the hive, through water evaporation that concentrates the honey's sugars until it is thick and viscous.

Honey bees stockpile honey in the hive. Within the hive is a structure made from wax called honeycomb. The honeycomb is made up of hundreds or thousands of hexagonal cells, into which the bees regurgitate honey for storage. Other honey-producing species of bee store the substance in different structures, such as the pots made of wax and resin used by the stingless bee.

Honey for human consumption is collected from wild bee colonies, or from the hives of domesticated bees. The honey produced by honey bees is the most familiar to humans, thanks to its worldwide commercial production and availability. The husbandry of bees is known as beekeeping or apiculture, with the cultivation of stingless bees usually referred to as meliponiculture.

Honey is sweet because of its high concentrations of the monosaccharides fructose and glucose. It has about the same relative sweetness as sucrose (table sugar). One standard tablespoon (15 mL) of honey provides around 190 kilojoules (46 kilocalories) of food energy. It has attractive chemical properties for baking and a distinctive flavor when used as a sweetener. Most microorganisms cannot grow in honey and sealed honey therefore does not spoil. Samples of honey discovered in archaeological contexts have proven edible even after thousands of years.

Honey use and production has a long and varied history, with its beginnings in prehistoric times. Several cave paintings in Cuevas de la Araña in Spain depict humans foraging for honey at least 8,000 years ago. While Apis melifera is an Old World insect, large-scale meliponiculture of New World stingless bees has been practiced by Mayans since pre-Columbian times.

Examples of use of honey
1. Traditional types of honey, such as flower honey, buckwheat honey and meadow honey, will be available to taste and buy, alongside more exotic varieties such as rapeseed honey and sainfoin honey.
2. He recently sent the hospital several tons of wild honey for women in childbed and hundreds of kilograms of rare honey tonics including honey of royal jelly, honey of Crataegus pinnatifida, honey of Epimedium koreanum, honey of Schizandra chinensis highly efficacious for the treatment of the female disorder.
3. He recalled Nasrallah‘s words as "Honey, honey, honey." "What he sews, we‘ll wear." Special correspondent Alia Ibrahim in Beirut contributed to this report.
4. The fair is a patchwork of experiences: Angela Fisher rose from county Honey Queen to Wisconsin‘s Honey Queen to American Honey Princess.
5. Among them are anti–radiation honey and eye strain relieving honey.