honeycomb

Everyday

1. A honeycomb is a wax structure made by bees with many six-sided cells where they store honey and raise their young. tree →
2. Honeycomb is a sweet, crunchy, golden toffee full of bubbles. tree →
3. A honeycomb pattern is a pattern of hexagons. tree →
4. To be honeycombed with something means to be full of holes or tunnels, as in «a hill honeycombed with caves». tree →

In the lessons

In science lessons on bees and pollination; in maths, the honeycomb shows hexagons tessellating (fitting together with no gaps); in food, honeycomb sweets and Crunchie bars.

Examples

• Bees build a honeycomb from wax. tree →
• Each cell of a honeycomb is a hexagon. tree →
• Hexagons tessellate, just like a honeycomb. tree →
• I love honeycomb ice cream. tree →
• The hill is honeycombed with old mine tunnels. tree →
• The beekeeper lifted out a dripping honeycomb. tree →
• "I'll get a bit of honeycomb," says he. tree →

Note

Countable as a bee structure; uncountable as a sweet. Maths: a hexagon has six sides; the honeycomb shape uses little wax for lots of space.

In Jewish tradition

Interpretation: Proverbs compares kind words and wisdom to sweet honey. Tradition teaches that Torah is as sweet as honey. In the primary lessons: In science lessons on bees and pollination; in maths, the honeycomb shows hexagons tessellating (fitting together with no gaps); in food, honeycomb sweets and Crunchie bars.

Examples

• Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. (Writings PRO.16.24, JPS 1917) tree →
• The full soul loatheth a honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. (Writings PRO.27.7, JPS 1917) tree →
• My son, eat thou honey, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to thy taste; (Writings PRO.24.13, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

Countable as a bee structure; uncountable as a sweet. Maths: a hexagon has six sides; the honeycomb shape uses little wax for lots of space.