HONEYPOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does honeypot mean? 

• HONEYPOT (noun)
  The noun HONEYPOT has 1 sense:

1. South African shrub whose flowers when open are cup-shaped resembling artichokes

  Familiarity information: HONEYPOT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HONEYPOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

South African shrub whose flowers when open are cup-shaped resembling artichokes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

honeypot; king protea; Protea cynaroides

Hypernyms ("honeypot" is a kind of...):

protea (any tropical African shrub of the genus Protea having alternate rigid leaves and dense colorful flower heads resembling cones)

Holonyms ("honeypot" is a member of...):

genus Protea (type genus of Proteaceae; tropical African shrubs)

 Context examples 

So was the plum pudding, which melted in one's mouth, likewise the jellies, in which Amy reveled like a fly in a honeypot.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The children went to him like bees to a honeypot, and establishing themselves on each knee, proceeded to captivate him by rifling his pockets, pulling his beard, and investigating his watch, with juvenile audacity.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)