melliferous

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They've perduced melliferous live-action pitchers 'fore Family Band, but this'n could be cut up and used for flypaper�and mebbe ought to be.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sir: My favorite from the melliferous mouth of Senator Ev came out in Senate debate some years ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

None of the melliferous clan, in my neighbourhood at least, is stirring as early as she is.

From Bramble-Bees and Others by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

The great idle drones, asleep in unconscious groups on the melliferous walls, are rudely torn from their slumbers by an army of wrathful virgins.

From The Life of the Bee by Sutro, Alfred

The bees," says De Layens, "would seem to be perfectly informed as to the locality, the relative melliferous value, and the distance of every melliferous plant within a certain radius from the hive.

From The Life of the Bee by Sutro, Alfred