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honey bag

honey bag is the alternative form of honeybag.

Meaning of honeybag

Noun

honeybag (plural honeybags)

  1. A pouch in a honey bee where it stores honey for later regurgitation and storage; a bee's crop.
    • good monsieur, get your weapons in your hand, and kill me a red-hipped humble-bee on the top of a thistle; and, good monsieur, bring me the honey-bagc. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First...

Forms of honey bag

pluralhoney bags

Questions about honey bag

What is honey bag the alternative form of?
Honey bag is the alternative form of honeybag.

Words near honey bag in the dictionary

  1. honey ant
  2. honey ants
  3. honey around
  4. honey badger
  5. honey badgers
  6. honey bag
  7. honey barge
  8. honey barges
  9. honey bear
  10. honey bears
  11. honey bee

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