honeycomb

• The table is all laden with yellow cream, honeycomb, and white bread and butter. —  The Lord of the Rings
• I see yellow cream and honeycomb, and white bread, and butter; milk, cheese, and green herbs and ripe berries gathered. —  The Lord of the Rings
• It's also one of the strangest objects in the entire Saturn system Hyperion made headlines when Cassini made a flyby and released photos of an object whose surface looks like a honeycomb, or perhaps a big chunk of coral Within weeks, scientists were tentatively suggesting that these bizarre features might be suncups Suncups can be found on earthly snowfields, where they are the result of uneven solar heating. —  AnalogSFF,June2007
• Clusters of four-story brick buildings were laid out like a corporate honeycomb, and lush lawn curved around the buildings, bordered by overmulched beds of tulips planted in bands of red and yellow, evidently the team colors. —  KillerSmile
• Rome itself remained an eight-hundred-year-old honeycomb, a traditional maze of tight-cornered streets that clambered up and down the Seven Hills, often no more than inadequate passageways, twisting alleys, aimless double-backs, and crumbling cul-de-sacs. —  Davis, Lindsey - The Course of Honor

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