beebread

English

Alternative forms

• bee bread, bee-bread

Etymology

Probably an Early Modern English combination of bee +‎ bread, but compare the Old English bēobrēad (“honeycomb full of honey”), and Middle English beoblæd (for beobræd?). Cognate with Old Saxon bībrōd (“honeycomb”, “gingerbread”, literally “bee-bread”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bēʹbrĕd', IPA^(key): /ˈbiːˌbɹɛd/

Noun

beebread (uncountable)

1. Bee pollen with added honey and bee secretions, made and stored in brood cells by forager bees, and used as food for worker bees and larvae.

Translations

bee pollen with added honey and bee secretions

Arabic: خُبْز النَحْل m (ḵubz an-naḥl) Armenian: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: пярга́ f (pjarhá) Bulgarian: перга f (perga), пчелен прашец m (pčelen prašec) Catalan: pa d'abella f Chinese: Mandarin: 蜂花粉 (fēnghuāfěn) Czech: please add this translation if you can Danish: bibrød n Dutch: ambrozijn (nl) n, bijenbrood (nl) n Esperanto: abelpano Estonian: suir (et) Finnish: mehiläisleipä (fi), perga (fi) French: pain d'abeille (fr) m German: Bienenbrot n, Perga f Greek: Ancient Greek: κήρῐνθος m (kḗrĭnthos), ἐριθάκη f (erithákē), σανδαράκη f (sandarákē) Hebrew: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: méhkenyér (hu), perga Italian: polline d'api m Kazakh: балтозаң (baltozañ), перга (perga) Latin: cērinthus m, erīthacē f, sandaraca f Latvian: bišu maize f Lithuanian: bičių duona f Old English: bēobrēad n Polish: pierzga (pl) f Portuguese: pão de abelha m Romanian: păstură (ro) f Russian: перга́ (ru) f (pergá), пчели́ный хлеб f (pčelínyj xleb) Serbo-Croatian: пчѐлињӣ хле̏б m / pčèlinjī hlȅb m (Serbia), pčèlinjī hljȅb m (Bosnia), pčèlinjī krȕh m (Croatia), perga (sh) f Slovak: perga f, včelí peľ m Slovene: cvetni prah (sl) m Spanish: pan de abeja m Swahili: please add this translation if you can Swedish: bibröd (sv) n Ukrainian: перга́ (uk) f (perhá)

See also

• ambrosia

Further reading

• Bee pollen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• bee beard