PROPOLIS

n.[Gr. before the city, or the front of the city. ] A thick odorous substance having some resemblance to wax and smelling like storax; used by bees to stop the holes and crevices in their hives to prevent the entrance of cold air, etc. Pliny represents it as the third coat; the first he calls commosis; the second pissoceros; the third, more solid than the others, he calls propolis.
This account of the propolis may not be perfectly correct, as authors do not agree in their descriptions of it.

PROPOLIS

Pro "po *lis, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr.

propolis

prop o lis |ˈpräpələs ˈprɑpələs | ▶noun a red or brown resinous substance collected by honeybees from tree buds, used by them to fill crevices and to seal and varnish honeycombs. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: via Latin from Greek propolis ‘suburb, ’ also ‘bee glue, ’ from pro ‘before ’ + polis ‘city. ’

propolis

propolis |ˈprɒp (ə )lɪs | ▶noun [ mass noun ] a red or brown resinous substance collected by honeybees from tree buds, used by them to fill crevices and to fix and varnish honeycombs. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: via Latin from Greek propolis ‘suburb ’, also ‘bee glue ’, from pro ‘before ’ + polis ‘city ’.

Propolis

Pro po lis Substantiv, feminin , die |Pr o polis |die Propolis; Genitiv: der Propolis griechisch ; »Vorstadt «harzartige, keimfreie Masse, die Bienen von den Knospen der Laubbäume sammeln, um damit das Innere ihres Bienenstocks auszukleiden