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

“Is it melliferous, then?” asked Vic, with a smile.

From The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

Grelet was a skilled apiarist, and replenished his melliferous flocks by wild swarms enticed from the forests.

From White Shadows in the South Seas by O'Brien, Frederick

We find even to-day, among the melliferous hymenoptera, all the stages of progressive civilisation of our own domestic bee.

From The Life of the Bee by Sutro, Alfred