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Honeycombed

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hon·ey·comb  (hn-km)
n.
1. A structure of hexagonal, thin-walled cells constructed from beeswax by honeybees to hold honey and larvae.
2. Something resembling this structure in configuration or pattern.
tr.v. hon·ey·combed, hon·ey·comb·ing, hon·ey·combs
1. To fill with holes or compartments; riddle: cliffs that were honeycombed with caves and grottoes.
2. To form in or cover with a pattern like that of a honeycomb.
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Adj.1.honeycombed - pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb)
alveolate, cavitied, faveolate, pitted
cellular - characterized by or divided into or containing cells or compartments (the smallest organizational or structural unit of an organism or organization); "the cellular construction of a beehive"; "any effective opposition to a totalitarian regime must be secretive and cellular"


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As the weather grew warmer it was not sensibly worn away by the water, nor broken up and floated off as in rivers, but, though it was completely melted for half a rod in width about the shore, the middle was merely honeycombed and saturated with water, so that you could put your foot through it when six inches thick; but by the next day evening, perhaps, after a warm rain followed by fog, it would have wholly disappeared, all gone off with the fog, spirited away.
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The labor castes were honeycombed by our agents-- men whose eyes saw, beyond the belly-need, the radiant figure of liberty and brotherhood.
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Here and there, in grooved depressions among the snowy desolations of the upper altitudes, one glimpsed the extremity of a glacier, with its sea-green and honeycombed battlements of ice.
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