Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

honey-plant

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.26 in modern English

Syllables: hon-ey--plant
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of honey plant.

Example Sentences

"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., […]"

Inflected Forms

honey-plants (plural)

Questions

What does honey-plant mean?: Alternative form of honey plant.

How to pronounce honey-plant

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