beebread (bebred)

[Not found in ME.; AS. beó - breád, bibreád =MHG. bie brōt, G. bienen - brota Sw. bibröt, orig. (in AS.) the honeycomb with the honey, beó, bee, + bread, bread.] 1. A variously colored substance, the pollen of flowers, collected by bees as food for their young. See beel.-2. A plant much visited by bees or cultivated for their use, as red clover, Trifolium pratense, or borage, Borago officinal is. Bowsprit Bee-blocks. a, a, bee-blocks; b, b, foretopmast stays. called bee - bread , and is the food of the larvæ or young. The adult bees feed on honey. The wax was at one time supposed to be formed from pollen by a digestive proce , but it is now ascertained that it is formed by secretion from the honey. The females and neuters have a barbed sting attached to a Drone. bag of poison, which flows into the wound inflicted by the sting. When a hive becomes overstocked a new colony is sent out under the direction of a queen bee. This is called swarming. Besides the com- mod. E. buck