honey
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Summary
honey is a food ingredient[1]. honey ranks in the top 2% of food ingredient entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (16,471 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: organic matter[3]
- Made from material: nectar[4], water[5]
- Subclass of: confection[6], syrup[7], secretion or excretion[8], fodder[9], shelf-stable food[10]
- Has use: spread[11], ingredient[12], medicine[13]
- Commons category: Honey[14]
- Unicode character: 🍯[15]
- Topic's main category: Category:Honey[16]
- Commons gallery: Honey[17]
- Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[18], Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[19], Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[20], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[21], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22], Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[23], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[24], Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[25], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[26], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[27], The New Student's Reference Work[28]
- Has characteristic: hygroscopy[29], viscosity[30]
- Natural product of taxon: Apis mellifera[31], Apis[32]
- Different from: Q11783663[33]
- Fabrication method: beekeeping[34], gathering[35]
- Hashtag: honey[36]
- Permanent duplicated item: Q137395801[37]
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Works and Contributions
Things named for honey include Malta[38], a sovereign state[39], in Malta[40], founded in 1964[41]; mellite[42], a mineral species[43]; melilite[44], a mineral species[45]; and meliphanite[46], a mineral species[47].
Why It Matters
honey has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[48] honey is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.[49]
Entities named for honey include Malta[38], a sovereign state[39], in Malta[40], founded in 1964[41]; mellite[42], a mineral species[43]; melilite[44], a mineral species[45]; and meliphanite[46], a mineral species[47].