HONEYCOMB

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs.

2.
n.

Any substance, as a easting of iron, a piece of worm-eaten wood, or of triple, etc., perforated with cells like a honeycomb. Honeycomb moth (Zoöl.), the wax moth. -- Honeycomb stomach. (Anat.) See Reticulum.


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