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# honeycomb

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

«honeycomb» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A honeycomb is a wax structure made by bees with many six-sided cells where they store honey and raise their young. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeycomb/#m1)
2. Honeycomb is a sweet, crunchy, golden toffee full of bubbles. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeycomb/#m2)
3. A honeycomb pattern is a pattern of hexagons. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeycomb/#m3)
4. To be honeycombed with something means to be full of holes or tunnels, as in «a hill honeycombed with caves». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeycomb/#m4)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeycomb/#x1)
- Each cell of a honeycomb is a hexagon. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeycomb/#x2)
- Hexagons tessellate, just like a honeycomb. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeycomb/#x3)
- I love honeycomb ice cream. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeycomb/#x4)
- The hill is honeycombed with old mine tunnels. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeycomb/#x5)
- The beekeeper lifted out a dripping honeycomb. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeycomb/#x6)
- "I'll get a bit of honeycomb," says he. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeycomb/#x7)

### 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 Jewish tradition

Interpretation: Proverbs compares kind words and wisdom to sweet honey. Tradition teaches that Torah is as sweet as honey. In the primary 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

- Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. (Writings PRO.16.24, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/honeycomb/#x1)
- The full soul loatheth a honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. (Writings PRO.27.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/honeycomb/#x2)
- My son, eat thou honey, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to thy taste; (Writings PRO.24.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/honeycomb/#x3)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «honeycomb» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeycomb/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«honeycomb» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/honeycomb.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «honeycomb» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/honeycomb/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«honeycomb» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/honeycomb.html) on Mova free.