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Beehive structure
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honeycomb
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Wikipedia
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A honeycomb is a mass of hexagonal wax cells built by honey bees in their nests to contain their larvae and stores of honey and pollen . Beekeepers may remove the entire honeycomb to harvest honey. Honey bees consume about 8.4 lb (3.8 kg) of honey to secrete ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A honeycomb provides the most rigid structure with lightest weight. ▪ As dissolution proceeds, a honeycomb texture may result, particularly where a mineral has near rectilinear cleavages. ▪ He had visited shanty settlements known ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A structure of hexagonal cells made by bees primarily of wax, to hold their larvae and for storing the honey to feed the larvae and to feed themselves during winter. 2 Any structure resembling a honeycomb. 3 (context construction English) voids left ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a framework of hexagonal cells resembling the honeycomb built by bees
Usage examples of honeycomb.
There were hideous struggles with the bleached viscous Dholes in the primal tunnels that honeycombed the planet.
They had missed the spectacular breeding colonies of the spring when the cliffs were white with nesting guillemots and razorbills and the puffin burrows honeycombed the turf, but there were other visitors now: the migrant goldcrests and fieldfares and buntings -and the seals, hundreds of them, returning to have their pups.
She had fought in it a thousand years earlier at the Hill of Flies, and clan no longer knew the art of honeycombing metal so that it was lightweight, but hard as stone.
This was one of the many secret escape routes honeycombing the castle.
The sweat of thousands of men had gone into honeycombing these cliff tops.
As Karn had said, the cave wall was honeycombed with holes and tunnels, many of which had been carved out of the limestone by early Hestites and used as homes.
And then once more, he became aware of the images flickering around him from the localizer net: down on the rockpile, the Focused slaves crammed by the hundreds in the honeycombs of Hammerfest, Anne Reynolt asleep in a cell as small as any.
A small piece of home-baked ham, savoury egg pies, a huge onion tart, like a Catherine wheel, cream and cheeses and fruit tarts, a summer pudding streaming with royal juices, a close-textured sponge cake, wedges of honeycomb and several different kinds of bread.
Lawrence saw the edge of the silo falling away from them, a dark hexagon framed in lusterless silver-white metal that shrank into the middle of a honeycomb of identical silos.
I remember that Smeth proposed a honeycomb structure or a membrane enclosing a gas.
Anxiety to begin our studies of the spot made the ride across the basin, soled with rises comfortably metalled, and with falls of sand unpleasantly loose and honeycombed, appear very long.
You see, all the hills are honeycombed with swallets - I mean sort of natural pits that go down to streams flowing deep underground.
The overloaded appetite loathes even the honeycomb, and it is scarce a wonder that the knight, mortified and harassed with misfortunes and abasement, became something impatient of hearing his misery made, at every turn, the ground of proverbs and apothegms, however just and apposite.
Savi out of sweet clay for His son to bite and eat, add honeycomb and pods, chewing her neck until froth rises bladdery, quick, quick, till maggots scamper through my brain.
On the same soils, early sowing would probably be preferable, even when much reduced in humus, providing they were in a honeycombed condition at the time of sowing.