HONEYCOMBED

alveolate, faveolate, cavitied, honeycombed, pitted

(adjective) pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb)

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Verb

honeycombed

simple past tense and past participle of honeycomb

Adjective

honeycombed (comparative more honeycombed, superlative most honeycombed)

Having a perforated structure, resembling a honeycomb.

Antonyms

• nonhoneycombed

Source: Wiktionary

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Hon"ey*combed`, a.

Definition: Formed or perforated like a honeycomb. Each bastion was honeycombed with casements. Motley.

HONEYCOMB

Hon"ey*comb`, n. Etym: [AS. hunigcamb. See Honey, and 1st Comb.]

1. A mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs.

2. Any substance, as a easting of iron, a piece of worm-eaten wood, or of triple, etc., perforated with cells like a honeycomb. Honeycomb moth (Zoöl.), the wax moth.

– Honeycomb stomach. (Anat.) See Reticulum.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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