honeycomb

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a structure of hexagonal wax cells made by bees to hold honey, pollen, and developing young

   The beekeeper lifted a frame of honeycomb from the hive.

2. 2
   noun

   a structure or pattern of many small adjoining cells or cavities

   The panel has an aluminum honeycomb between two thin outer sheets.

3. 3
   verb

   to fill or penetrate something with many holes, passages, or distributed elements

   Decades of tunneling had honeycombed the hillside.

From Old English hunigcamb, a compound of honey + comb. The verb and extended noun senses arose from the comb's repeating cells and the many cavities they create.

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