Hon"ey*comb` (?), n. [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 Zool., the wax moth. -- Honeycomb stomach. Anat. See Reticulum.
© Webster 1913.