What is the difference between nectar and honey?
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* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
(by extension) Any delicious drink, now especially a type of sweetened fruit juice.
(botany) The sweet liquid secreted by flowers to attract pollinating insects and birds.
(uncountable) A viscous, sweet fluid produced from plant nectar by bees. Often used to sweeten tea or to spread on baked goods.
(countable) A variety of this substance.
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(figuratively) Something sweet or desirable.
* 1595 , , Act 5, Scene 3, lines 91–93:
* Shakespeare
(countable, informal) A woman, especially an attractive one.
A spectrum of pale yellow to brownish-yellow colour, like that of most types of (the sweet substance) honey.
Describing a thing involving or resembling honey.
* 1599 William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 1, Sc. 2 :
A spectrum of pale yellow to brownish-yellow colour, like that of most types of honey.
To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments.
* Shakespeare
To be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn.
* Tennyson
As nouns the difference between nectar and honey
is that nectar is the drink of the gods while honey is a viscous, sweet fluid produced from plant nectar by bees. Often used to sweeten tea or to spread on baked goods.As an adjective honey is
describing a thing involving or resembling honey.As a verb honey is
to be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments.nectar
English
(wikipedia nectar)Noun
(en noun)- They pourd in soveraine balme and Nectar good, / Good both for erthly med'cine and for hevenly food.
See also
* ambrosia * pollenReferences
[http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=nectar&searchmode=none]Anagrams
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English
(wikipedia honey)Noun
(en-noun)- O my love, my wife! / Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath / Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
- the honey of his language
- Honey , would you take out the trash?
- Honey , I'm home.
- Man, there are some fine honeys here tonight!
Synonyms
* (sweet fluid from bees) (l) * (term of affection) sweetieAdjective
(en adjective)- So work the honey -bees, / Creatures that by a rule in nature teach / The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
Verb
(en verb)- Honeying and making love.
- Rough to common men, / But honey at the whisper of a lord.