royal jelly

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   a secretion of the pharyngeal glands of bees that is fed to very young larvae and to bees destined to be queens

   Broadersecretion

Questions about royal jelly

What does royal jelly mean?

royal jelly means "a secretion of the pharyngeal glands of bees that is fed to very young larvae and to bees destined to be queens".

Is royal jelly a common word?

royal jelly 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.