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comb-honey en · NOUN

Etymology

From comb + honey.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) Unprocessed honey that is still situated in its original beeswax cells.
   • Chunk honey consists of pieces of comb honey in a container with liquid honey filled in around them. 1953, United States, Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics (contributor), Honey, Some Ways to Use it, page 3:
   • The recent increase in the sale of alfalfa comb-honey has caused many grocers to hesitate to buy any comb-honey, for fear previous unpleasant experiences may be repeated and leave them with unsalable granulated comb-honey on hand. 1915, Everett Franklin Phillips, Beekeeping, page 305:
   • They are considered to be an all-purposes bee, but their comb-honey is not quite so good as that of the native kind: they are not equal to the latter as comb-builders, and are often hard to persuade to enter the supers; 1887, By Samuel Simmins, A Modern Bee-farm and Its Economic Management, page 42:
   • All comb honeys will remain liquid longer when left on the hive than when stored. 1926, Henry Perkins, “Questions and Answers”, in The Western Honey Bee, volume 14, number 1, page 27:
   • Comb-honey production requires some more skill, perhaps, in order to produce a good crop, and at the same time keep down swarming, than does extracted-honey production. 1922, Henry Grant Rowe, Starting Right with Bees, page 9:
   • If you are cutting comb honey from a frame (cut comb honey), use a warm, sharp, thin-bladed knife and cut the comb on some kind of screen to allow the honey to drip off. 1978, Diana Sammataro, Alphonse Avitabile, The Beekeeper's Handbook, page 118:

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