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noun a mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae
originProbably an Early Modern English combination of bee + bread, but compare the Old English bēobrēad (“honeycomb full of honey”), and Middle English beoblæd (for beobræd?). Cognate with Old Saxon bībrōd (“honeycomb”, “gingerbread”, literally “bee-bread”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0