"batumen" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1974, Charles Duncan Michener, The Social Behavior of the Bees: A Comparative Study, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 334:",
          "text": "[The] Batumen Nests of Meliponini are surrounded by a layer of material called batumen. The batumen is made of cerumen (commonly brittle), resin (propolis), or sometimes of vegetable matter or mud mixed with resin or cerumen.",
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          "ref": "2007 May 31, Charles D. Michener, The Bees of the World, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 28:",
          "text": "... batumen plate Figure 7-8 . Diagram of a meliponine nest in a hollow tree, with parts labeled. The batumen typically surrounds the entire nest; here it consists of two plates that limit the nest area and a thin lining of batumen (not[…]",
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          "ref": "2013 January 17, Patricia Vit, Silvia R. M. Pedro, David Roubik, Pot-Honey: A legacy of stingless bees, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 13:",
          "text": "[…] batumen may form a thick layer. For example in a long hollow in a tree trunk, strong batumen plates above and below the nest may close off the nest area from other parts of the hollow (Fig. 1.3 ). The strong and usually laminate[…]",
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        "A mixture consisting of cerumen (beeswax), resin and vegetable matter, used in the construction and maintenance of nests by meliponine bees."
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