1. Noun
A mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs.
2. Noun
Any substance, as a easting of iron, a piece of worm-eaten wood, or of triple, etc., perforated with cells like a honeycomb.
3. Noun
a structure of small hexagonal cells constructed from beeswax by bees and used to store honey and larvae
Vocabulary classified under Literature and rhetoric
4. Noun
a framework of hexagonal cells resembling the honeycomb built by bees
Vocabulary classified under Engineering
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