honeycomb

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Etymology

honey +‎ comb

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈhʌniːkəʊm/

Honeycomb with drone larvae and eggs.

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Noun

honeycomb (plural honeycombs)

1. A structure of hexagonal cells made by bees primarily of wax, to hold their larvae and for storing the honey to feed the larvae and to feed themselves during winter.
2. Any structure resembling a honeycomb.

   The wood porch was a honeycomb of termite tunnels before we replaced it.

   • 1797 Adams, John, (Letter from John Adams to Uriah Forrest, June 20, 1797), compiled in Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia, at http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/Notable_Comments_on_Jefferson_(Contemporary)

     [there is in Jefferson]...evidence of a mind soured, yet seeking for popularity, and eaten to a honeycomb with ambition....

3. (construction) voids left in concrete resulting from failure of the mortar to effectively fill the spaces among coarse aggregate particles.
4. (aviation) Manufactured material used manufacture light, stiff structural components using a sandwich design.
5. (solar cell) texturing the surface of a cell to increase its surface area and capture more sun.

Translations

structure of cells made by bees

• Armenian: մեղրախորիսխ (hy) (meġraxorisx)
• Bulgarian: пчелна пита (bg) (pčelna pita) f, пита (bg) (pita) f
• Catalan: bresca (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蜂窩 (cmn), 蜂窝 (cmn) (fēngwō), 蜂巢 (cmn) (fēngcháo)

• Czech: plástev (cs) f
• Erzya: керяз (ker'az)
• Esperanto: mielĉelaro (eo), (alternate spelling) mielcxelaro (eo), (alternate spelling) mielchelaro (eo)
• Finnish: hunajakenno (fi), kenno (fi)
• French: rayon de miel (fr) m, rayon de ruche (fr) m, alvéole d’abeille (fr) f, alvéole (fr) f
• German: Wabe (de) f, Bienenwabe (de) f, Honigwabe (de) f
• Greek: μελικηρίς (el) (melikirís) f, μελιτόκηρον n, μελόπηττα f, κηρήθρα (el) (kiríthra) f, μελισσοκόμικος (melissokómikos)
• Hindi: छत्ता (čattā) m, मधु कोष (madhu koš) m
• Hungarian: lép (hu)
• Icelandic: vaxkaka (is) f
• Japanese: 蜂の巣 (ja) (はちのす, hachi no su), 蜂巣 (ja) (ほうそう, hōsō), ハニカム (ja) (hanikamu)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: şan (ku) m, şane (ku) m

• Latin: favus (la) m
• Latvian: kāre (lv) f, šūna (lv) f
• Lithuanian: korys (lt) m
• Persian: موم عسل (mum asal)
• Polish: plaster miodu
• Portuguese: favo de mel (pt) m, favo (pt) m
• Romanian: fagure (ro)
• Russian: соты (ru) (sóty) m pl
• Scottish Gaelic: cìr-mheala (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: саће (sh) n pl, (obsolete) сат (sh) m

  Roman: saće (sh) n pl, (obsolete) sat (sh) m

• Spanish: panal (es) m
• Swedish: vaxkaka (sv) c, bikaka (sv) c
• Turkish: petek (tr)
• Ukrainian: стільник (uk) (stílʹnyk) m
• Urdu: چھتا (čattā) m, مدھو کوش (madhu koš) m
• Volapük: mielaziöbem (vo), (alternate spellng) mielazioybem (vo), (older term, obsolete) mielaväk (vo)

any resembling structure

• Finnish: kennosto (fi)
• Japanese: ハニカム (ja) (hanikamu)
• Russian: соты (ru) (sóty) m pl

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: саће (sh) n pl, (obsolete) сат (sh) m

  Roman: saće (sh) n pl, (obsolete) sat (sh) m

References

Verb

honeycomb (third-person singular simple present honeycombs, present participle honeycombing, simple past and past participle honeycombed)

1. To riddle something with holes, especially in such a pattern.

   Termites will honeycomb a porch made of untreated pine.

See also

• favaginous
• beeswax