honeycomb

n. structure of small hexagonal wax cells formed by bees in which to place their eggs and honey; something shaped like or resembling a honeycomb

A honeycomb is a mass of hexagonal wax cells built by honey bees in their nests to contain their larvae and stores of honey and pollen.Beekeepers may remove the entire honeycomb to harvest honey. Honey bees consume about 8.4 pounds of honey to secrete one pound of wax (Graham 1992), so it makes economic sense to return the wax to the hive after harvesting the honey, commonly called "pulling honey" or "robbing the bees" by beekeepers. The structure of the comb may be left basically intact when honey is extracted from it by uncapping and spinning in a centrifugal machine - the honey extractor. Fresh, new comb is sometimes sold and used intact as comb honey, especially if the honey is being spread on bread rather than used in cooking or to sweeten tea. Honeycomb is edible all by itself, and has been called "the beekeeper's lunch."
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Noun
1. a framework of hexagonal cells resembling the honeycomb built by bees
(hypernym) framework, frame, framing
Verb
1. carve a honeycomb pattern into; "The cliffs were honeycombed"
(hypernym) fret
2. penetrate thoroughly and into every part; "the revolutionaries honeycombed the organization"
(hypernym) penetrate, perforate
3. make full of cavities, like a honeycomb
(hypernym) change, alter, vary

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

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

a wood; honeycomb; watching closely
  

honeycomb; anything that distills or drops
  

beholder; honeycomb; garment
  

viol; honeycomb