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