batumen
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A mixture consisting of cerumen (beeswax), resin and vegetable matter, used in the construction and maintenance of nests by meliponine bees.
Example Sentences
- "[The] Batumen Nests of Meliponini are surrounded by a layer of material called batumen. The batumen is made of cerumen (commonly brittle), resin (propolis), or sometimes of vegetable matter or mud mixed with resin or cerumen."
- "... batumen plate Figure 7-8 . Diagram of a meliponine nest in a hollow tree, with parts labeled. The batumen typically surrounds the entire nest; here it consists of two plates that limit the nest area and a thin lining of batumen (not[…]"
- "[…] batumen may form a thick layer. For example in a long hollow in a tree trunk, strong batumen plates above and below the nest may close off the nest area from other parts of the hollow (Fig. 1.3 ). The strong and usually laminate[…]"