MEANING
1. Containing honey or having its sweet flavor.
2. Pleasantly smooth in speech, often with persuasive or flattering intent.
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- honeyed tea
- honeyed cakes
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Honeyed tea cooled beside the untouched letter.
The market smelled of honeyed cakes and scorched wood.
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- honeyed
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Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: Comparative more honeyed; superlative most honeyed where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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