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honeycomb

verb as in perforate

verb as in riddle

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The school’s modular design resembles a honeycomb, where as few or as many nodes as needed can be linked together.

The surface of the cake reinforces its name, with the hexagon pattern of a honeycomb.

WaveCel uses a honeycomb structure that both crushes and shears laterally on impact to lessen linear and rotational energy.

In case you missed it, the central honeycomb stands for “Value”, which can only be fully achieved when all other surrounding factors are met.

They do this by repairing the wax caps on the queens’ cells in the honeycomb.

This dish is based on the beautiful white honeycomb tripe, which comes from the second stomach, or the reticulum, of an ox.

It was like honeycomb, the cells of which had been sliced by a knife; the shining metal brimmed over in the delicate quartz cells.

You must have seen a "cob" of Indian corn some time, with all the flat yellow grains nestling in a honeycomb of little cells.

All the wasps which I have hitherto described have their tiers of cells single: now, the honeycomb is invariably double.

Johnny started to take an apple out of his pack, then changed his mind and took a piece of honeycomb.

The piebald sniffed at the honeycomb, then jerked up its head to watch him suspiciously.

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On this page you'll find 33 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to honeycomb, such as: puncture, bore, drill, drive, hole, and penetrate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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