honeycombing

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noun

A honeycomb pattern or structure.

Scrabble 25

Meanings

nounhoneycombing (plural honeycombings)

plural honeycombings

  1. A honeycomb pattern or structure.

    the contiguous honeycombings of the land and the titan mountains

    1936, H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness
  2. medicineAn appearance of the presence of small cystic spaces with irregularly thickened walls composed of fibrous tissue, observed in widespread pulmonary fibrosis.

    Synonyms: honeycomb lung

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of honeycomb

Synonyms & antonyms

nounAn appearance of the presence of small cystic spaces with irregularly thickened walls composed of fibrous tissue, observed in widespread pulmonary fibrosis.

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