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honey

/ˈhʌni/ adjective C2
  1. Involving or resembling honey.
  2. Of a pale yellow to brownish-yellow color, like most types of honey.
  3. Honey-sweet.

Comparative honeyer · Superlative honeyest

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But he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree, and a skin softer than down.
The Jungle Book, p. 10 · B2
When she finally left it and walked down the long hill that sloped to the Lake of Shining Waters it was past sunset and all Avonlea lay before her in a dreamlike afterlight--“a haunt of ancient peace.” There was a freshness in the air as of a wind that had blown over honey-sweet fields of clover.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 327 · C1
## The Flies and the Honey-Pot
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 7 · B2
A NUMBER of Flies were attracted to a jar of honey which had been overturned in a housekeeper’s room, and placing their feet in it, ate greedily.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 7 · B2

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