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honeycomb

3 2.8

A group of six-sided wax cells made by bees to hold honey and baby bees

noun
/ˈhʌniˌkoʊm/

: panal

Old Meyer's behind the house, scraping honeycomb into a bowl.

People, is this honeycomb with honey in it?

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Examples

Still singing, she reached into the hive and broke off a portion of honeycomb.

Fiction book (1995)
For dessert, they each got a piece of honeycomb.

Fiction book (1994)
I reached in the mass for the sweet honeycomb there.

Madea's Family Reunion (2006)
That was the honeycomb you brought me.

Samson and Delilah (1949)
This has fish shape bread with ice cream and honeycomb on top.
Hot honey, caramel popcorn with milk chocolate honeycomb pieces.
It looks good and I've had honeycomb like this before, so this is multiple first times.
I came to my garden, my sister, my bride; I gathered my myrrh with my spice, I ate my honeycomb with my honey, and I drank my wine with my milk.

Blog text (14)
Binder shrugged the basket off onto the table and began to remove its contents: a honeycomb wrapped in leaves, some speckled eggs packed in spongy moss to keep them from breaking, and a number of more ordinary parcels: butter, cheese, candles, and a piece of soap.

Fiction book (1993)
The beekeeper harvested the honey from the honeycomb he had carefully inspected.

Compounds

honeycomb tripe

Specialized

9.9

The edible lining of a cow's second stomach with a honeycomb texture used as food

Surface Forms

honeycomb singular

honeycombs plural

Morphology

honeycomb = honey + comb (transparent) = honey + comb

A literal compound: the components 'honey' and 'comb' directly describe the bees' wax structure that stores honey, so the meaning is clear from the parts.

Etymology

The word honeycomb comes from the parts honey and comb, where comb means 'a frame of small wax cells' used to hold 'honey'. So a honeycomb is the six-sided wax structure bees build to store honey and baby bees.