Hon"ey*comb` (?), n. [AS. hunigcamb. See Honey, and 1st Comb.]

1.

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

2.

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

Honeycomb moth Zool., the wax moth. -- Honeycomb stomach. Anat. See Reticulum.

 

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