Honey and Thyme

Honey

Honey is a sweet and viscous substance made by several species of bees, the best-known of which are honey bees. Honey is made and stored to nourish bee colonies. Bees produce honey by gathering and then refining the sugary secretions of plants or the secretions of other insects, like the honeydew of aphids. This refinement takes place both within individual bees, through regurgitation and enzymatic activity, and during storage in the hive, through water evaporation that concentrates the honey's sugars until it is thick and viscous.

Thyme

Thyme is a culinary herb consisting of the dried aerial parts of some members of the genus Thymus of flowering plants in the mint family Lamiaceae. Thymes are native to Mediterranean countries in North Africa, Levant and Southern Europe. Thymes have culinary, medicinal, and ornamental uses. The species most commonly cultivated and used for culinary purposes is Thymus vulgaris, native to Southeast Europe.

honey

Noun

1. A sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans.
2. A variety of this substance.

Adjective

1. Involving or resembling honey.
2. Of a pale yellow to brownish-yellow color, like most types of honey.

and

Symbol

1. ISO 639-3 language code for Ansus.

Conjunction

1. As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.

thyme

Noun

1. Any plant of the labiate genus Thymus, such as garden thyme (Thymus vulgaris), a warm, pungent aromatic, that is much used to give a relish to seasoning and soups.