| Definitions | | Deseret |
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proper noun
- Mormon name for Utah.
- 1830: s:Book_of_Mormon/Ether
- Chapter_Two, Ether 2:3 (Book of Mormon)
- :And they did also carry with them deseret, which, by interpretation, is a honey bee; and thus they did carry with them swarms of bees, and all manner of that which was upon the face of the land, seeds of every kind.
- 1872: Mark Twain, Roughing It, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=154525237&tag=EAF504&query=Deseret&id=eaf504 Appendix A
- :In 1849 the Mormons organized a "free and independent" government and erected the "State of ," with Brigham Young as its head. But the very next year Congress deliberately snubbed it and created the "Territory of Utah" out of the same accumulation of mountains, sage-brush, alkali and general desolation, -- but made Brigham Governor of it.
Etymology: From the Book of Mormon, wherein it is interpreted as meaning honey bee in the language of the Jaredites.
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