honeycomb

as inperforate
as inriddle

Synonyms for honeycomb

verb make a hole in

Antonyms for honeycomb

Word Origin & History

Old English hunigcamb; see honey (n.) + comb (n). Probably the image is from wool combing. Transferred use, of structures of similar appearance, from 1520s. As a verb, from 1620s (implied in honeycombed).

Example Sentences for honeycomb

Turkey got some nice clover, and laid the bits of honeycomb in it.

They meet in the great caverns which honeycomb the continent.

The ground was rotten with the honeycomb of caves and cracks.

Sweet are the uses of a boy's vanity, sweeter than honey and the honeycomb.

Favose: with large deep holes, like the cells of a honeycomb.

And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.

There was a honeycomb for Samson in the carcass of the monster.

"Seems he don't intend us ter get that honeycomb, Rube," he said calmly.

Thar was a mass of honeycomb an' wax below what was left of his feet.

Honey is sometimes extracted from the honeycomb and the comb replaced in the beehive.

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