honey plant
Syllables: hon·ey plantUK/ˈhʌni ˌplɑːnt//ˈhʌni ˌplænt/
honey plant noun: any plant from which bees usually collect nectar, pollen, or both for making honey.
Noun
honey plant (plural honey plants)
- Any plant from which bees usually collect nectar, pollen, or both for making honey.
- I have no doubt that where I live one thousand hives will provide for themselves and gather surplus honey wherever one can. It is not with honey plants, as with other pasturage, which once eaten off takes time and favoring showers to cause a new growth.1863 September 12, Ellen S. Tupper, “Essay on Bees—1st Premium”, in Tenth Report of the Secretary of the State Agricultural Society, to the Governor of the State, for the Year 1863, Des Moines, Ia....
- [T]he only reason that buckwheat is considered valuable as a honey plant, is because it blooms generally in dry weather late in the fall, when the difference in the temperature between two o'clock in the day and two o'clock at night is sufficient to favor the production of honey.1869 September, A. W. Harlan, “Honey Dews in the West and Southwest [From the Keokuk ‘Gate City.’]”, in Samuel Wagner, editor, American Bee Journal, volume V, number 3, Washington, D.C.: Samuel...
- A plant of the genus Hoya, especially the porcelainflower or waxplant (Hoya carnosa) from the tendency for excess nectar to drip from its flowers.
- HOYA CORIACEA. Thick leaved Hoya. […] Those of our readers unacquainted with the genus will, perhaps, understand us better by saying, that this is a kind of honey plant, familiar to most persons, with its waxy white flowers, and often grown in windows. The Hoya coriacea appears to be a thicker...1839 May, “Notices of New Plants”, in Robert Marnock, editor, The Floricultural Magazine, and Miscellany of Gardening, volume III, number XXXVI, London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., […]; Sheffield, South...
- Hoya carnosa (Thick-leaved).—Foliage large, flowers in large drooping corymbs; they are of a pinkish-white colour, and contain, or rather yield, drops of pure sweet honey; hence this fine old plant is known as the Honey plant.1855 June 5, T. Appleby, “Plants for Baskets”, in George W. Johnson, Robert Hogg, editors, The Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman’s Companion: A Journal of Horticulture, Rural and Domestic...
- Synonyms:
- hoya
- A plant of the genus Melissa, especially lemon balm (Melissa officinalis).
- Honey-plant [Melissa officinalis L[innaeus] [i.e., Carl Linnaeus] (family Lamiaceae)] contains a very low concentration of essential oil in leaves (0.02–0.2 vol%).2003, Stjepan Pepeljnjak, Ivan Kosalec, Zdenka Kalodera, Danica Kuštrak, “Natural Antimycotics from Croatian Plants”, in Mahendra Rai, Donatella Mares, editors, Plant-derived Antimycotics: Current...
- Honey plant [Honey-plant] – Melissa officinalis L., […]2015, “H”, in Elaine Nowick, compiler, Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants, with Scientific Names Index, volume 1 (Common Names), Lincoln, Neb.: Zea Books, University of Nebraska–Lincoln...
- Synonyms:
- melissa
- Bishop's weed or false Queen Anne's lace (Ammi majus).
- English name: Honey Plant […] Species and varieties: Ammi majus L. […]2004, Azhar Ali Farooqi, B. S. Sreeramu, “Medicinal Crops [Honey Plant]”, in Cultivation of Medicinal and Aromatic Crops, revised edition, Hyderabad, Telangana, India: Universities Press (India)...
- Ammi majus Linnaeus […] in English: bishop's flower, bishop's weed, bullwort, crow's foot, devil's carrot, false Queen Anne's lace, greater ammi, herb william, honey plant, lace flower, large bulwort, mayweed, Queen Anne's lace, toothpick ammi2012, Umberto Quattrocchi, “Ammi L. Apiaceae (Umbelliferae)”, in CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants: […], Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN, page 244, column 2
honey plant meaning in Tamil
honey plant in Tamil
- நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், தாவரங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்
Examples of honey plant in a sentence
- There was also another good honey plant that had lately come into notice in his section.1872, “Proceedings”, in Transactions of the North American Bee Keepers’ Society, at their First Annual Session Held at the City of...
- HONEYSUCKLE—Lonicera spp.: […] This introduced, escaped shrub is strikingly overlooked as a major honey plant.2009, Kim Flottum, “Some of the Better Honey Plants to Know”, in The Backyard Beekeeper’s Honey Handbook: A Guide to Creating, Harvesting...
- The Hoya coriacea appears to be a thicker foliaged plant, stronger in its stem, and perhaps less inclined to become a twiner or creeper than the common honey plant.1839 May, “Notices of New Plants”, in Robert Marnock, editor, The Floricultural Magazine, and Miscellany of Gardening, volume III, number...
Synonyms of honey plant
Forms of honey plant
| plural | honey plants |
|---|---|
| alternative form | honey-plant |
Questions about honey plant
- What does honey plant mean?
- Honey plant means any plant from which bees usually collect nectar, pollen, or both for making honey.
- What is honey plant in Tamil?
- Honey plant in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், தாவரங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Honey plant meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use honey plant in a sentence?
- There was also another good honey plant that had lately come into notice in his section.
- What part of speech is honey plant?
- Honey plant is a noun.
- How do you pronounce honey plant?
- Honey plant is pronounced /ˈhʌni ˌplɑːnt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of honey plant?
- The plural of honey plant is honey plants.
Words near honey plant in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: honey plant (page history and authors); honey plant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: En-us-honey plant.flac, en-au-honey plant.ogg.
Cite this entry: “honey plant.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/honey_plant. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.