polyflower

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

poly- +‎ flower

Adjective[edit]

polyflower (not comparable)

  1. (of honey) Produced from multiple types of flower.
    • 1998, M Marinova, V Peneva, S Kuncheva, “Contents of heavy metals in bee honey”, in Veterinary Medicine:
      Average quantities of 20,6; 18,1 and 11,5 mg iron/kg; 0,34; 0,20 and 0,14 mg copper/kg and 1,13; 0,86 mg zinc/kg were detected in manna honey, polyflower honey and acacia honey, respectivly.
    • 1991, YG Lee, BU Min, SU Lim, “Comparative study on some quality-related components of different floral honeys -esp. on the contents of unsaturated higher fatty acids”, in Applied Biological Chemistry, volume 34, number 2, page 102:
      Quality of three kinds of honey from acacia, chestnut and polyflower sources, was evaluated by physicochemical and GC-MS analysis in respect to some chemical composition.