Honeycomb

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

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

II. Honeycomb ·noun Any substance, as a easting of iron, a piece of worm-eaten wood, or of triple, ·etc., perforated with cells like a honeycomb.

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