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honey-comb

A form of honeycomb — A substance made by bees (clade Anthophila) primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells to hold their larvae, and for storing pollen and honey to feed the larvae and themselves when other food is scarce; it is also eaten by humans as part of comb-honey; (countable) a single sheet made up of two layers of this substance.

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Meanings

nounhoney-comb (countable and uncountable, plural honey-combs)

plural honey-combs

countabledateduncountableDated form of honeycomb.
Popular items in the show: […] Alain Glass's bee box, containing an occupied honey-comb (the bees are dead); […]
1965 February 21, Grace Glueck, “Blues and Greens on Reds”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Nov 2025
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So vvee read that God manifeſted by the Lots vvhich Saul cauſed to be dravvn [1 Sam[uel] 14.43.] the fault that Jonathan had committed, in eating a honey-comb, contrary to the oath taken by the people.
1651, Thomas Hobbes, “Of the Word of God, and of Prophets”, in Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, London: […] [William Wilson] for Andrew Crooke, […], →OCLC, 3rd part (Of a Christian Common-wealth), page 230
[T]o the altar each man brought some goodly offering, […] a waxen honey-comb / Dripping with oozy gold which scarce the bee / Had ceased from building, […]
1881, Oscar Wilde, “Charmides”, in Poems, London: David Bogue, […], →OCLC, page 105

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