• Honey-plant

    Full definition of honey-plant

    Noun

    honey-plant

    (plural honey-plants)
    1. Alternative form of en.
      • 1876, Samuel Wood, A Plain Guide to Good Gardening: Or How to Grow Vegetables, Fruits, and Flowers: Chapter Division III. The Flower Garden., Hoya carnosa (honey-plant). Although this is a hot-house plant it can be grown in the window of the sitting-room, and I have grown and flowered it exceedingly well in an ordinary greenhouse; ...
      • 1922, Everett Franklin Phillips, Beekeeping in the Tulip-tree Region Chapter Peculiarities of the Region, The lack of literature concerning the tulip-tree as a honey-plant is a serious one and the chief object of this bulletin is to make up this deficiency.
      • 1997, John Muir, Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth; My First Summer in the Sierra; The Mountains of California; Stickeen; Selected Essays Chapter The Mountains of California, But of late years plows and sheep have made sad havoc in these glorious pastures, destroying tens of thousands of the flowery acres like a fire, and banishing many species of the best honey-plants to rocky cliffs and fence-corners, ...
      • 2003, Stjepan Pepeljnjak, Plant-derived Antimycotics: Current Trends and Future Prospects Chapter Natural Antimycotics from Croatian Plants, Honey-plant Melissa officinalis Linnaeus
      • 2015, Elaine Nowick, compiler, Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants, with Scientific Names Index Chapter H, Honey plant Honey-plant – Melissa officinalis L., ...
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