Look up: royal-jelly

1. royal jelly
   [n] - a secretion of the pharyngeal glands of bees that is fed to very young larvae and to bees destined to be queens
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2. royal jelly
   noun a secretion of the pharyngeal glands of bees that is fed to very young larvae and to bees destined to be queens
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3. royal jelly
   (from the article `reproductive behaviour`) ...to sexually developed individuals. If the queen fails to secrete this substance because of age or death, the workers immediately construct special ... ...cells in which the queen can lay large numbers of eggs, the worker bees select a dozen or so tiny larvae that would otherwise develop int...
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4. Royal jelly
   a highly nutritious glandular secre tion of young bees, used to feed the queen and young brood.
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5. Royal jelly
   a highly nutritious glandular secretion of young bees, used to feed the queen and young brood.
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6. Royal jelly
   Pharyngial glandular food, very high in nutrition, secreted by young worker bees and placed in cells for larval food. Worker and drone bee larvae are limited in amount of royal jelly fed, queen larvae are not.
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7. Royal jelly
   `Royal jelly` is a honey bee secretion that is used in the nutrition of larvae, as well as adult queens. It is secreted from the glands in the hypopharynx of worker bees, and fed to all larvae in the colony.<ref name = "Graham">Graham, J. (ed.) (1992) The Hive and the Honey Bee (...
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