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Definition of Honeycombed
1. Adjective. Pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb).
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
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 ..."