Meaning of honey-plant | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [C1]

Examples

“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; […]”

“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.”

“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, […]”

“Honey-plant [Melissa officinalis L[innaeus] [i.e., Carl Linnaeus] (family Lamiaceae)] contains a very low concentration of essential oil in leaves (0.02–0.2 vol%).”

“Honey plant⟳ [Honey-plant] – Melissa officinalis L., […]”

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