Honeycomb1. (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.
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