honeycomb

«honeycomb» in Mova's school dictionary: a wax structure made by bees with many six-sided cells… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a honeycomb, honeycombs); verb (honeycomb, honeycombed — usually passive)

meaning for a pupil

1) A honeycomb is a wax structure made by bees with many six-sided cells where they store honey and raise their young. tree →

2) Honeycomb is a sweet, crunchy, golden toffee full of bubbles. tree →

3) A honeycomb pattern is a pattern of hexagons. tree →

4) To be honeycombed with something means to be full of holes or tunnels, as in «a hill honeycombed with caves». tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons on bees and pollination; in maths, the honeycomb shows hexagons tessellating (fitting together with no gaps); in food, honeycomb sweets and Crunchie bars.

examples

• Bees build a honeycomb from wax. tree →
• Each cell of a honeycomb is a hexagon. tree →
• Hexagons tessellate, just like a honeycomb. tree →
• I love honeycomb ice cream. tree →
• The hill is honeycombed with old mine tunnels. tree →
• The beekeeper lifted out a dripping honeycomb. tree →
• "I'll get a bit of honeycomb," says he. tree →

note

Countable as a bee structure; uncountable as a sweet. Maths: a hexagon has six sides; the honeycomb shape uses little wax for lots of space.

In the corpora

• More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
• Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
• My son, eat thou honey, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to thy taste;
• The full soul loatheth a honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «honeycomb» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.