honey gland

1. 1.

   a gland (often a protuberance or depression) that secretes nectar

   Synonymsnectary

   Broaderplant organ

Questions about honey gland

What does honey gland mean?

honey gland means "a gland (often a protuberance or depression) that secretes nectar".

What is another word for honey gland?

Close synonyms include nectary. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is honey gland a common word?

honey gland is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.