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A substance secreted by honey bees to aid in the development of immature or young bees, supplied in extra measure to those young that will become queen bees.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
a secretion of the pharyngeal glands of bees that is fed to very young larvae and to bees destined to be queens
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: secretion
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
47 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
غِذَاء مَلَكِيّ
(ḡiḏāʔ malakiyy)
— substance secreted by bees
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Arabic:
غِذَاء مَلِكَات
(ḡiḏāʔ malikāt)
— substance secreted by bees
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Armenian:
մեղվակաթ
(meġvakatʻ)
— substance secreted by bees
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Belarusian:
матачнае малачко
(matačnaje malačkó)
— substance secreted by bees
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Bulgarian:
пчелно млечице
(pčelno mlečice)
— substance secreted by bees
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Catalan:
gelea reial
— substance secreted by bees
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Chinese Mandarin:
蜂王漿 /蜂王浆
(fēngwángjiāng)
— substance secreted by bees
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Czech:
mateří kašička
— substance secreted by bees
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Dutch:
koninginnenbrij
— substance secreted by bees
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Esperanto:
reĝa ĵeleo
— substance secreted by bees
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Estonian:
linnupiim
— substance secreted by bees
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Finnish:
kuningatarhyytelö
— substance secreted by bees
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Finnish:
emomaito
— substance secreted by bees
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French:
gelée royale
— substance secreted by bees
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Georgian:
ფუტკრის რძე
(puṭḳris rʒe)
— substance secreted by bees
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German:
Weiselfuttersaft
— substance secreted by bees
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German:
Bienenköniginnenfuttersaft
— substance secreted by bees
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German:
Königinnenfuttersaft
— substance secreted by bees
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German:
Königinfuttersaft
— substance secreted by bees
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German:
Futtersaft
— substance secreted by bees
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German:
Gelée royale
— substance secreted by bees
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Greek:
βασιλικός πολτός
(vasilikós poltós)
— substance secreted by bees
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Italian:
pappa reale
— substance secreted by bees
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Japanese:
ローヤルゼリー
(rōyaruzerī)
— substance secreted by bees
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Japanese:
ロイヤルゼリー
(roiyaruzerī)
— substance secreted by bees
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Kazakh:
ара сүті
(ara sütı)
— substance secreted by bees
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Korean:
로열 젤리
(royeol jelli)
— substance secreted by bees
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Lithuanian:
bičių pienelis
— substance secreted by bees
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Macedonian:
матичен млеч
(matičen mleč)
— substance secreted by bees
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Polish:
mleczko pszczele
— substance secreted by bees
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Portuguese:
geleia real
— substance secreted by bees
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Romanian:
lăptișor de matcă
— substance secreted by bees
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Russian:
ма́точное молочко́
(mátočnoje moločkó)
— substance secreted by bees
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Serbo-Croatian:
ма̏тична мле̑ч
— substance secreted by bees
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Serbo-Croatian:
ма̏тична млије̑ч
— substance secreted by bees
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Serbo-Croatian:
ма̏тичнӣ мле̑ч
— substance secreted by bees
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Serbo-Croatian:
ма̏тичнӣ млије̑ч
— substance secreted by bees
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Serbo-Croatian:
mȁtična mlȇč
— substance secreted by bees
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Serbo-Croatian:
mȁtična mlijȇč
— substance secreted by bees
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Serbo-Croatian:
mȁtičnī mlȇč
— substance secreted by bees
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Serbo-Croatian:
mȁtičnī mlijȇč
— substance secreted by bees
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Slovak:
materská kašička
— substance secreted by bees
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Slovene:
matični mleček
— substance secreted by bees
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Spanish:
jalea real
— substance secreted by bees
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Swedish:
drottninggelé
— substance secreted by bees
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Thai:
นมผึ้ง
(nom-pʉ̂ng)
— substance secreted by bees
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Vietnamese:
sữa ong chúa
— substance secreted by bees