Honeycomb

Quick meaning: Honeycomb is a noun meaning (countable, by extension) Something resembling honeycomb (noun sense 1) in having numerous cells or small holes.

Meaning

(countable, by extension) Something resembling honeycomb (noun sense 1) in having numerous cells or small holes.

More Meanings

1. Something resembling honeycomb (noun sense 1) in having numerous cells or small holes.
2. (countable, figurative) Something resembling honeycomb in sweetness; hence, something desirable or pleasant.
3. To bore cavities or tunnels inside (something).
4. To decorate (something) with a honeycomb pattern.
5. To make way deeply into (something) so as to weaken it; to undermine.
6. To riddle (something) with small holes, especially in a pattern resembling a honeycomb (noun sense 1); also, to cause (something) to become hollow or weakened in this way.
7. (uncountable) A substance made by bees (clade Anthophila) primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells to hold their larvae, and for storing pollen and honey to feed the larvae and themselves when other food is scarce; it is also eaten by humans as part of comb-honey; (countable) a single sheet made up of two layers of this substance.

Example Sentences

The wood porch was a honeycomb of termite tunnels before we replaced it.

Pleaſant words are [as] an honycombe, ſweete to the ſoule, and health to the bones.

The cells of the bees are perfect hexagons: theſe, in every honeycomb, are double, opening on either ſide, and cloſed at the bottom.

Yes, Frank, what I have is my own, if labour in getting, and care in augmenting, can make a right of property; and no drone shall feed on my honeycomb.

Word Forms

• honeycombs
• honey-comb
• honeycombing
• honeycombed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include alveolate, faveolate, cavitied, cellular, pitted, honeybee.

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