melliet (mel i)

[L. mel ( mell- ), honey: see mell2. The term is appar. arbitrary, and not conformed to Gr. μέλι, honey.] Honey. For from thy makings milk and mellie flows. Davies , Eclogue, 1. 20. ( Davies .) Mellifera (me-life-rä), n. pl. [NL., neut. pl. of L. mellifer, honey-bearing: see melliferous.] In Latreille's system, the fourth family of aculeate Hymenoptera; the An tho phil a; the honeybees. It corresponded to the Linnean genus Apis, and was divided by Latreille into Andrenetæ and Apiaria, equiv. alent to the modern families Andrenidæ and Apidæ. melliferous (me-lif'e-rus), a. [=F. mell ifère = Pg. It. mellifero, And [Canaan] being mountainous, could not but abound with melliferous plants of the best kind. N. Grew, Cosmologia Sacra, iv. 2. 2. Bearing or preparing honey, as a bee; specifically, of or pertaining to the Mellifera.