English Dictionary

honeydew

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈhʌnɪdjuː/

名詞

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(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.

日本語の意味

植物の樹液を吸う虫（特にアブラムシやハダニなど）や菌類によって、葉などの植物部分に分泌される甘く粘着性のある液体（蜜露）

After the aphid infestation, honeydew coated the leaves and attracted a swarm of ants.

アブラムシの発生後、葉が蜜露に覆われ、アリの大群を引き寄せた。

意味（1）

(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.

[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: […]

意味（2）

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

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

意味（3）

(uncountable) A blackish mould (often called sooty mould) produced by fungi of the order Dothideales, feeding on the substance mentioned in sense 1.

意味（4）

(uncountable, originally US) In full honeydew tobacco: a fine sort of tobacco moistened with a sweet substance (originally molasses).

意味（5）

(countable) Short for 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”).

意味（6）

(countable, figuratively) Something that is enjoyable or pleasant.

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.

honeydews （ plural ）