Honey

Honey

Honey ( /ˈhʌni/) is a sweet food made by bees using nectar from flowers. The variety produced by honey bees (the genus Apis) is the one most commonly referenced. It is the type of honey collected by beekeepers and consumed by humans. Honey produced by other bees and insects has distinctly different properties.

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Famous quotes containing the word honey:

    “The honey of heaven may or may not come,
    But that of earth both comes and goes at once.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Stands the Church clock at ten to three?
    And is there honey still for tea?”
    —Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)

    “A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave
    Of a great flood that whirls me to the sea.
    But, as you will! we’ll sit contentedly,
    And eat our pot of honey on the grave.”
    —George Meredith (1828–1909)