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PRONUNCIATION OF HONEY GUIDE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HONEY GUIDE

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determiner
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Honey guide is a noun.
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WHAT DOES HONEY GUIDE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of honey guide in the English dictionary

The definition of honey guide in the dictionary is any small bird of the family Indicatoridae, inhabiting tropical forests of Africa and Asia and feeding on beeswax, honey, and insects: order Piciformes.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HONEY GUIDE

honey
honey badger
honey bear
honey buzzard
honey creeper
honey fungus
honey locust
honey mesquite
honey mouse
honey phalanger
honey plant
honey-coloured
honey-eater
honey-like
honey-sweet
honeybee
honeybun
honeybunch
honeycomb
honeycomb moth

WORDS THAT END LIKE HONEY GUIDE

autoguide
Brownie Guide
electronic programme guide
Girl Guide
guide
misguide
mountain guide
outguide
preguide
Queen´s Guide
railway guide
Ranger Guide
street guide
tour guide
user´s guide
waveguide

Synonyms and antonyms of honey guide in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «honey guide» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HONEY GUIDE

Find out the translation of honey guide to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of honey guide from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «honey guide» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

蜂蜜指南
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

guía de la miel
570 millions of speakers

English

honey guide
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

शहद गाइड
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

دليل العسل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

мед руководство
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

guia de mel
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মধু ছত্রাক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

guide de miel
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kulat madu
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Honig Guide
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ハニーガイド
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

꿀 가이드
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Madu jamur
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mật ong dẫn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தேன் பூஞ்சை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मध कवक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Bal mantarı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

guida miele
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Podręcznik miód
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

мед керівництво
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ghid de miere
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

οδηγός μέλι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

heuning gids
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

honung guide
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

honning guide
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of honey guide

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HONEY GUIDE»

The term «honey guide» is used very little and occupies the 177.778 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HONEY GUIDE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about honey guide

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HONEY GUIDE»

Discover the use of honey guide in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to honey guide and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Honey Guide
Set against the backdrop of turbulent elections, THE HONEY GUIDE brings Nairobi and its citizens vividly to life, and introduces a truly unforgettable leading character in crime fiction.
Richard Crompton, 2013
2
Juma and the honey guide
How to say the Swahili words in this story; A story of a boy and his father hunting together. Childrens book.
Robin Bernard, 1996
3
Making Honey Guide Book
POLLY PEACOCK. How to Make Honey in Your Backyard! HOW TO MAKE HONEY IN YOUR BACKYARD V; How to Make Honey in Your Backyard! People who have gardens and appreciate the importance of bees in the natural environment ...
POLLY PEACOCK, 2013
4
African Folktales
The next morning, Honey Guide said: "Let us go to our honey." Of course, when they came to the honey place all they Found there was a bit of bare honeycomb, mangled and thrown about, but when Honey Guide asked Wheatear about it, ...
Roger Abrahams, 2011
5
Hour of the Red God: A Detective Mollel Novel
In this dark thriller, tradition and power collide, arriving at a shocking, unforgettable end. And in the Maasai hero Mollel, a new detective icon is born. One of Publishers Weekly's Best Mystery/Thriller Books of 2013
Richard Crompton, 2013
6
The Ila-speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia
How Honey-guide came to have Authority over Honey Honey-guide and Capped Wheatear lived together in one place at first and ate out of one dish. Honey-guide was the elder, Wheatear the younger. They set their minds on going to hunt for ...
Edwin William Smith, Andrew Murray Dale, 1920
7
Common Cents: The Money in Your Pocket
John and Elizabeth — 2006 The honey guide's revenge An old Zulu tale from South Africa tolls abOUt Sharing. Once there was a greedy young man Pocket money The older you are. the more likely you. John is a computer programmer.
Gerry Bailey, Felicia Law, 2006
8
Birds of the World: A Popular Account
Of these two exceptions the Yellow- backed Honey-guide (Indicator xanthonotus) is found in the Himalayas, and the Malayan Honey-guide (/. archipelagicus) in the Malay Peninsula and Borneo. The habits of the Honey-guides are not well ...
Frank Hall Knowlton, Robert Ridgway, Frederic Augustus Lucas, 1909
9
Country Life
In Alrica there are some nine species of honey guide, most ul them belonging to the genus Indicator. Of the allied race, Prodotiscus, one, P. regulus, is found only in Natal. Of the Indicators, four are found in South Africa, and three of these are ...
‎1907
10
Animal Physiology: Adaptation and Environment
It is clear that the honey guide prefers to eat wax rather than honey; it has even happened that the bird has entered a chapel to attack the wax candles. The honey guide does indeed digest wax, aided by symbiotic bacteria in the digestive tract.
Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HONEY GUIDE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term honey guide is used in the context of the following news items.
1
5 Travel Destinations In Rivers State
... red-rumpedtinker bird, lesser honey guide, gaboonwoodpecker, blacked-capped yellow warbler, yellow-chinned sunbird, and white-breasted ... «Nigerian Bulletin, Jul 15»
2
Catch the illusive brown hyena on 50/50
Surprises lurk around every corner on Veld Focus, as a pair of snakes perform a double act, a honey guide pokes his beak into an already ... «Media Update, May 15»
3
Science Corner: Busy bees producing honey, wax and resins
An interesting story of mutualism is that of the honey guide bird that lives in South Africa. This bird interacts with humans by deliberately leading ... «Yuma Sun, May 15»
4
Hell's Gate by Richard Crompton, review
Richard Crompton's extravagantly praised debut novel, The Honey Guide, introduced Mollel, a Nairobi cop firmly in that great tradition of ... «Telegraph.co.uk, May 14»
5
Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2014 – longlist …
Richard Crompton is also a debut author with The Honey Guide, his first novel. South African author Lauren Beukes' The Shining Girls was a ... «Harrogate News, May 14»
6
Partners Communicating: Commendation and Counsel …
Consider the honey guide, a small, thrushlike bird found mostly in Africa. True to its name, the honey guide, with its distinctive cry, will lead a ... «PsychCentral.com, Mar 14»
7
Evgeny Lebedev: Into the wilderness with my bloodthirsty warrior …
Their speciality, however, is finding honey, a search in which they are aided by a bird they call the “Honey Guide”. Emitting a warbling trill, they ... «Evening Standard, Dec 13»
8
The best crime and thrillers of 2013
... Maasai-warrior-turned-policeman protagonist of Richard Crompton's debut, The Honey Guide (Weidenfeld & Nicholson), which is set against ... «The Guardian, Dec 13»
9
Richard Crompton: 'Kenyans tell me, this is the story of our city'
The Honey Guide, Richard Crompton's first novel, was languishing, half-finished, in a drawer a few years ago. Crompton, who was born in ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Sep 13»
10
Hay Festival Nairobi 2013 line-up: Teju Cole, Richard Crompton and …
The Honey Guide is a murder mystery by English author and long-term Kenyan resident Richard Crompton, set in Kenya following post-election ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Aug 13»

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