Definition of Honeycombed

1. Adjective. Pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb).

Exact synonyms: Alveolate, Cavitied, Faveolate, Pitted
Similar to: Cellular
Derivative terms: Alveolus

Definition of Honeycombed

1. a. Formed or perforated like a honeycomb.

Definition of Honeycombed

1. Adjective. Having a perforated structure, resembling a honeycomb. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Honeycombed

1. honeycomb [v] - See also: honeycomb

Lexicographical Neighbors of Honeycombed

honeybunnies
honeybunny
honeybuns
honeybush
honeybushes
honeycake
honeycakes
honeycomb
honeycomb conjecture
honeycomb lung
honeycomb macula
honeycomb pattern
honeycomb ringworm
honeycomb stomach
honeycomb tripe
honeycombed (current term)
honeycombing
honeycomblike
honeycombs
honeycreeper
honeycreepers
honeydew
honeydew list
honeydew melon
honeydew melons
honeydews
honeyeater
honeyeaters
honeyed
honeyed words

Literary usage of Honeycombed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Individual Training in Our Colleges by Clarence Frank Birdseye (1907)
"We are living in a time when college athletics are honeycombed with falsehood, ... College athletics honeycombed with falsehood. Evil effects upon students, ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"On thf honeycombed Limestones in the Bottom of Lake Huron. ROBERT BELL, Ottawa, Canada. (Read by HM AMI.) The Limestones over a certain region in the bottom ..."

3. Underground: Gambling and Its Horrors. by Thomas Wallace Knox (1876)
"-THE SEVEN HILLS honeycombed. - HOW TUB CATACOMBS WEKE MADE. ... on which Rome stands were perforated and ^honeycombed by enormous passages and galleries, ..."

4. The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research: The Actual by Josephus Nelson Larned, Augustus Hunt Shearer (1922)
"... for, Busier parts the ground was honeycombed rs for storing wine, salt, and other mer- no vehicle was allowed to be used in goods were carried by ..."

5. The Arts in the Middle Ages, and at the Period of the Renaissance by P. L. Jacob, James Dafforne (1870)
"First Bindings in Leather, honeycombed (waffled ?) and gilt.—Description of some celebrated Bindings of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. ..."

6. Wood: A Manual of the Natural History and Industrial Applications of the by George Simonds Boulger (1908)
"Poplar planks are dried in kilns in America at 158° F. to 180° F. ; but Oak, Ash, Maple, Birch, Sycamore, etc., Fio. 43.—" honeycombed " board, splitting ..."

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