📖 Definitions of "Melliferous"
adjective
- 1
Bearing honey
- 2
Bearing any substance that is collected by bees to produce honey
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Melliferous"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| mellific | (archaic) Producing honey. |
| nectariferous | That yields nectar. |
| nectiferous | Alternative form of nectariferous. [That yields nectar.] |
| melittophilous | (botany, of plants) That attract insects such as ants or bees which then pollinate the flower |
| nectarophagous | (biology) That feeds on nectar (of plant flowers) |
| nectaried | Having a nectary. |
| biferous | (botany) Bearing flowers or fruit twice each year |
| frugiferent | Bearing fruit. |
| fructiferous | Synonym of fruit-bearing. |
| pollinigerous | Bearing or producing pollen. |
| frugiferous | bearing fruit |
| amentiferous | (botany) Bearing catkins. |
| flower-bearing | flowering, bearing flowers |
| flowerbearingnoun | Alternative form of flower-bearing. [flowering, bearing flowers] |
| pollenigerous | Alternative form of pollinigerous. [Bearing or producing pollen.] |
| corolliferous | (botany) Bearing a corolla. |
| glandiferous | Bearing acorns or other similar nuts. |
| melaniferous | Bearing melanin. |
| unifloral | (of honey) Produced from the nectar of a single species of plant flower |
| allotropous | (biology) Pertaining to an insect which is attracted to flowers of a large range of different species of plant, or an insect which does not feed exclusively on one type of flower. |
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