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# honeycomb

«honeycomb» in Mova's school dictionary: **a wax structure made by bees with many six-sided cells…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a honeycomb, honeycombs); verb (honeycomb, honeycombed — usually passive)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A honeycomb is a wax structure made by bees with many six-sided cells where they store honey and raise their young. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeycomb/#m1)

2) Honeycomb is a sweet, crunchy, golden toffee full of bubbles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeycomb/#m2)

3) A honeycomb pattern is a pattern of hexagons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeycomb/#m3)

4) To be honeycombed with something means to be full of holes or tunnels, as in «a hill honeycombed with caves». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeycomb/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons on bees and pollination; in maths, the honeycomb shows hexagons tessellating (fitting together with no gaps); in food, honeycomb sweets and Crunchie bars.

### examples

- Bees build a honeycomb from wax. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeycomb/#x1)
- Each cell of a honeycomb is a hexagon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeycomb/#x2)
- Hexagons tessellate, just like a honeycomb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeycomb/#x3)
- I love honeycomb ice cream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeycomb/#x4)
- The hill is honeycombed with old mine tunnels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeycomb/#x5)
- The beekeeper lifted out a dripping honeycomb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeycomb/#x6)
- "I'll get a bit of honeycomb," says he. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeycomb/#x7)

### note

Countable as a bee structure; uncountable as a sweet. Maths: a hexagon has six sides; the honeycomb shape uses little wax for lots of space.

### In the corpora

- [More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.275/)
- [Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.467/)
- [My son, eat thou honey, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to thy taste;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.699/)
- [The full soul loatheth a honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.784/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «honeycomb» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeycomb/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.