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Beeling vs Keeling - What's the difference?

beeling | keeling |

As nouns the difference between beeling and keeling

is that beeling is a small, young, or juvenile bee while keeling is (zoology) a cod.

As a verb keeling is

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beeling

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small, young, or juvenile bee.
  • *1901 , British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser - Volume 29 - Page 354:
    • The "bee-ling " is now at its best, spotted here and there with large patches of "crow-ling" (Erica cinerca) and smaller patches of the beautiful pink waxlike "wire-ling" (Erica tetralix).
  • *1906 , Harper's magazine - Volume 113 - Page 593:
    • Herein must go an egg and food for the beeling that shall hatch therefrom.
  • *1907 , Henry Christopher McCook, Nature's craftsmen :
    • [...] in which the pollen is gathered and carried to the cells to feed the hungry little larvae or beelings when they are hatched from the egg.

    keeling

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (head)

    • Etymology 2

    Compare Icelandic keila, Swedish kolja, Danish kulle.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (zoology) A cod.
    • (Webster 1913)