Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A structure of hexagonal, thin-walled cells constructed from beeswax by honeybees to hold honey and larvae.
- n. Something resembling this structure in configuration or pattern.
- v. To fill with holes or compartments; riddle: cliffs that were honeycombed with caves and grottoes.
- v. To form in or cover with a pattern like that of a honeycomb.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A structure of wax of a firm texture, consisting of hexagonal cells with concave bottoms ranged side by side, formed by bees for the reception of honey and of their eggs.
- n. Sweet one; darling: a trivial term of endearment. Compare honey, 3.
- n. Any substance, as a casting of iron, etc., having cells like those of a honeycomb.
- n. Specifically In mammalogy, the reticulum or second stomach of a ruminant. See cut under ruminant.
- To fill with cells or holes, as wood or earth, by perforation or excavation, in the manner of a honeycomb.
Wiktionary
- n. A structure of hexagonal cells made by bees primarily of wax, to hold their larvae and for storing the honey to feed the larvae and to feed themselves during winter.
- n. Any structure resembling a honeycomb.
- n. construction voids left in concrete resulting from failure of the mortar to effectively fill the spaces among coarse aggregate particles.
- n. aviation Manufactured material used manufacture light, stiff structural components using a sandwich design.
- v. To riddle something with holes, especially in such a pattern.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs.
- n. Any substance, as a easting of iron, a piece of worm-eaten wood, or of triple, etc., perforated with cells like a honeycomb.
WordNet 3.0
- v. penetrate thoroughly and into every part
- n. a structure of small hexagonal cells constructed from beeswax by bees and used to store honey and larvae
- n. a framework of hexagonal cells resembling the honeycomb built by bees
- v. carve a honeycomb pattern into
- v. make full of cavities, like a honeycomb
Etymologies
- honey + comb (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But one thing that would always motivate her to come and help carry bags was the promise of a piece of honeycomb from the honey vendor.”
“- The much rumored "honeycomb" - style home screen for the upcoming Windows Mobile 6.5 has made its appearance in yet another leak.”
“Windows Mobile 6.5 drops its 'honeycomb' - At MIX 09 in Las Vegas, Microsoft showed off its latest version of Windows Mobile 6.5, which has experienced a number of UI design tweaks.”
“Now the Guinea-hens, when they had come to listen, the day before, to the apple-woman's song, had brought each of them a grain of maize in her beak, and had thrown it into her apron; so when she got up she carried it with her gathered up there, and now she had been baking some delicious little cakes on a fire of dry sticks that the river had drifted down, and Mopsa had taken a honeycomb from the rock, so that they all had a very nice breakfast.”
“One of the most stinging arguments with Navair—the kind that leads people never to speak to each other again—centered on something called honeycomb.”
“One of my grandfathers did for a while and I remember thinking the honeycomb was the best thing, ever.”
A honeybee and a chicken walk into a Brooklyn bar fight « Dating Jesus
“Ring and Kikko that may be called a honeycomb pencil.”
“My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:”
“But by optimizing the interactions of the "pennies," or particles, Torquato made them self-assemble into an entirely different pattern known as a honeycomb lattice called that because it very much resembles a honeycomb.”
“The bees then deposit the concentrated nectar in a thin film on the honeycomb, which is a waxy network of hexagonal cylinders about 0.20 inch/5 mm across, built up from the secretions of the wax glands of young workers.”
Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘honeycomb’.
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AGRI - apiculture
acacia, alfalfa, Arbutus unedo, ash content, baker's honey, Banksia menziesii, bee plant, Bell heather, blackberry honey, blend of honeys, blossom honey, borage and 183 more...
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honey phrases/words
how honey is used
clarified honey, clover honey, corn honey, honey agaric, honey ant, honey-apple, honey-baby, honey-badger, honey-bag, honey-balm, honey banana, honey-basket and 205 more...
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((Eye)) CBS = I See B.S.
Input limited to 30 seconds, so we needed to find cost-effective ways to become a part of your life. Uninvited houseguest technology: the link technique, thoughts as real estate. The full potential...
joy, dodge, ram, monster, coke, snuggle, gateway, ivory, life, subway, crunch, crest and 151 more...
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SCIE - graph theory
antiparallel, convex polyhedron, nonadjacent, acyclic, isomorphic, vertex, graph, planar, homomorphism, factorization, adjacency, disjoint and 423 more...
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Beautiful Compound Words
aftermath, afterthought, butterfly, campfire, colorblind, backhand, crossword, cupcake, dollhouse, drawbridge, dreadlock, dreamscape and 73 more...
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Quilt Designs
log cabin, bear claw, double wedding ring, amish diamond center, flower basket, pinwheel, irish chain, lone star, broken star, drunkard's path, nine patch, flying geese and 84 more...
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The sweetest thing.
A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down!
sugary, sweetness, fragrant, cloying, saccharine, honey, luscious, nectar, pudding, pastry, bittersweet, cupcake and 44 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (H)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
haberdashery, hailstone, halcyon, halibut, halo, hamadryad, hammock, harangue, harbour, harebell, harlequin, harp and 104 more...
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Flutter
tuberose, golden apple, apple cider, unicorn, extraordinary, Pleiades, Merope, speckle, glitter, rose, pitter-pat, whale and 314 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, H
hurlyburly, hurtle, hodgepodge, heartwood, hatch, halo, hooptedoodle, hacienda, hairpin, heyday, hardscrabble, hopper and 208 more...
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patterns
ergodic, stochastic, stereopsis, echolocation, holocation, broker, map, intarsia, encipher, ocellus, muslin, mandelbrot set and 159 more...
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As soon as I finish this chapter
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procrastination, drily, rheumatism, rheum, suint, tiresome, wearisome, tiring, suboptimal, subpar, subprime, grange and 190 more...
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Having: C; m; e
Goodies pulled from a list I've compiled of most-every word having these letters in common — It's going take to take a long, long time to actually get through (and I may want to extend it lat...
chamber, chimney, compesce, imperch, ipom�ic, lambency, premier cru, recumbence, simnelcake, succumbence, umbeschew, almacle and 631 more...
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gorgonglare's list
the best
zeppelin, ion, laconic, serendipity, cataract, saturnine, syzygy, cinnabar, bistro, lithium, paroxysm, scion and 694 more...
Tweets
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treeseed Fresh, new comb is sometimes sold and used intact as comb honey, especially if the honey is being spread on bread rather than used in cooking or to sweeten tea. Honeycomb is edible all by itself, and has been called "the beekeeper's lunch".
_Wikipedia Feb 17, 2008