honeycomb
Americannoun
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a structure of rows of hexagonal wax cells, formed by bees in their hive for the storage of honey, pollen, and their eggs.
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a piece of this containing honey and chewed as a sweet.
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anything whose appearance suggests such a structure, especially in containing many small units or holes.
The building was a honeycomb of offices and showrooms.
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the reticulum of a ruminant.
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Textiles.
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Also called waffle cloth. a fabric with an embossed surface woven in a pattern resembling a honeycomb.
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the characteristic weave of such a fabric.
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adjective
verb (used with object)
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to cause to be full of holes; pierce with many holes or cavities.
an old log honeycombed with ant burrows.
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to penetrate in all parts.
a city honeycombed with vice.
noun
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a waxy structure, constructed by bees in a hive, that consists of adjacent hexagonal cells in which honey is stored, eggs are laid, and larvae develop
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something resembling this in structure or appearance
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zoology another name for reticulum
verb
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to pierce or fill with holes, cavities, etc
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to permeate
honeycombed with spies
Other Word Forms
Conjugated Forms
Present
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has honeycombedperfect 3rd person singular
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have honeycombedperfect
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is honeycombingprogressive 3rd person singular
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has been honeycombingperfect progressive 3rd person singular
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have been honeycombingperfect progressive
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honeycombingparticiple
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honeycombssingular 3rd person
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are honeycombingprogressive
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am honeycombingprogressive 1st person singular
Past
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had honeycombedperfect
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had been honeycombingperfect progressive
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were honeycombingprogressive plural
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honeycombedsimple
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honeycombedparticiple
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was honeycombingprogressive singular
Future
Etymology
Origin of honeycomb
before 1050; Middle English huny-comb, Old English hunigcamb. See honey, comb
Example Sentences
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If you’re lucky, Honeycomb Canyon will open too.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 10, 2024
Software company Honeycomb said in June it saw people attempting prompt injection attacks against its systems, including extracting customer information, but its LLM tools are not connected to such data.
From Washington Times • Aug. 31, 2023
Phone calls were made to Honeycomb to let it know he would have severe difficulties effectively communicating during the group interview.
From BBC • Sep. 24, 2021
So he set “Universal Robots” in an era before personal computing and made sure that the aliens of “The Honeycomb Trilogy” destroyed all the technology.
From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2016
But the idea of going back to the Honeycomb and reporting that he had glimpsed an unknown creature in the grass and left it alone was more than he could swallow.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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