Honeydew

Quick meaning: Honeydew is a noun meaning A sweet liquid substance resembling the substance mentioned in sense 1, such as honey, nectar, or manna in the Bible.

Meaning

A sweet liquid substance resembling the substance mentioned in sense 1, such as honey, nectar, or manna in the Bible.

More Meanings

1. A blackish mould (often called sooty mould) produced by fungi of the order Dothideales, feeding on the substance mentioned in sense 1.
2. In full honeydew tobacco: a fine sort of tobacco moistened with a sweet substance (originally molasses).
3. Something that is enjoyable or pleasant.
4. Of a light green colour, like the flesh of some honeydew melons.
5. (uncountable) A sweet, sticky substance deposited on leaves and other plant parts by insects (especially aphids and scale insects) feeding on plant sap, or by fungi.
6. Ellipsis of honeydew melon (“a melon from the Cucumis melo Inodorus cultivar group, with sweet, light green or white flesh and a smooth greenish-white or yellow rind”).

Example Sentences

[F]reſh teares / Stood on her cheeks, as doth the honie devv, / Vpon a gathred Lillie almoſt vvithered.

Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread: / For he on honey-dew hath fed, / And drank the milk of Paradise.

He was held vnworthy euer after to ſucke the Hony dew of Peace, that (againſt his comming, by whom our Peace weares a triple Wreathe) would offer to play the Droane.

[T]here reſteth on the leaves of this tree a kinde of red thicke dew in the hotteſt time of Summer more then on any other tree round about it, which will be rather dry then bedewed at all, which honey dew being taken doth ſlake the thirſt wonderfully: […]

Word Forms

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Synonyms for honeydew

Depending on context, synonyms include melligo, ambrosia.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include melon, melons, dewdrop, dewfall, drip, dewwater.

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