Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Perforated or excavated like a honeycomb; specifically, having little cells, as cast metal when not solid.
- Decorated with a honeycomb pattern—either the Mayflower pattern or one of hexagons.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having a perforated structure, resembling a honeycomb.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Formed or perforated like a honeycomb.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb)
Examples
“That condition of soil known as honeycombed furnishes a peculiarly opportune time for sowing these seeds, as it provides a covering for them while the land is moist, and thus puts them in a position to germinate as soon as growth begins.”
“The body features a maple top over a "honeycombed" ash core, i.e. the body is porous, i.e. chambered, i.e. you got the picture from the term”
“honeycombed' cotton things we were forced to use unless we were going to be frankly 'poor' and cover our beds with plain patchwork, made up hurriedly and quilted in simple 'fans' in plebeian squares, as poor folk who haven't time for elegant stitches did theirs.”
“a wormhole! that settles it, done for! perhaps the thing is riddled, or even "honeycombed" in parts.”
The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII.
“But this mine had been so honeycombed over its long history that there were no precise maps.”
The Huffington Post: The Man Behind The Rescue Of The Chilean Miners
“This mountain is honeycombed with such mines, many over a century old.”
“There's lots to discover locally – the area is honeycombed with caverns – or for crazy arboreal activity, Go Ape, with its zip wires and tarzan swings is half an hour's drive north-west of the farm.”
“An image of a taxi-clogged street is set against one of smiling boys in an alleyway; an aerial view of straight avenues, traffic circles, and high-rises is juxtaposed with one of the honeycombed streets of the old town.110”
“Ten years ago, the web was honeycombed with porn infiltrating search results at the most unexpected times--a problem Google had to face developing a spam-free search engine.”
The Huffington Post: How Google Tackled Its Early Porn Problem
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘honeycombed’.
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honey phrases/words
how honey is used
honey-cup, corn honey, honey-bun, honey-bag, honey ant, honey-dun, honey-man, honey-fly, honey-balm, clarified honey, clover honey, honey agaric and 205 more...
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GRE
acrimony, verisimilitude, tenebrious, tenebrous, dishabille, unfettered, deplorable, woebegone, credulity, naïveté, mitigate, meliorate and 475 more...
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Beekeeping
Fun apicultural words & terms
worker bees, royal jelly, drones, apiarist, forager bee, mating flight, spermatheca, absconding swarm, africanized honey..., bee blower, dequeen, festooning and 40 more...
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word set 3
sempiternal, chronometric, superjacent, transmogrify, rectitudinous, phantasmagoria, luculent, angle of repose, alligatoring, somnolent, avifauna, phalanx and 82 more...
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Pattern
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