Bee balm
Also called Oswego tea. a wildflower, Monarda didyma, of the mint family, having thin, lance-shaped leaves and white, salmon, or intensely red flowers, growing along streams in temperate forests and widely cultivated in gardens.
a plant, Melissa officinalis, having broad, opposite, serrated leaves and tight clusters of white, lemon-scented flowers that attract bees.
Historical Examples
June will give the bellflower, mullein, bee balm and foxglove.
The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Ellen Eddy Shaw
The cardinal flower is the only flower more gaudy in red than this bee balm.
The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Ellen Eddy Shaw
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a mixture of pollen and honey stored by bees and fed to their young. Historical Examples That is pollen, or bee bread, and the bees are very fond of it. Little Busybodies Jeanette Augustus Marks and Julia Moody noun a mixture of pollen and nectar prepared by worker bees and fed to the larvae Also […]
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a mixture of pollen and honey stored by bees and fed to their young. Historical Examples The whole ends with a vivid but very comic representation of the avid consumption of the honey and beebread. The Manbos of Mindano John M. Garvan The worker must now forage for pollen or “beebread” and nectar from flowers. […]