蜂巣 — meaning in English

English meaning

• beehive noun A structure, natural or built, in which bees live and produce honey.
• honeycomb verb To riddle something with small holes or tunnels, as bees do with a hive.

Senses

蜂巣 is used for these senses in English:

• beehive Such a home prepared by the bees themselves, in which some species of honey bees live and raise their young.
• honeycomb (uncountable) A substance made by bees (clade Anthophila) primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells to hold their larvae, and for storing pollen and honey to feed the larvae and themselves when other food is scarce; it is also eaten by humans as part of comb-honey; (countable) a single sheet made up of two layers of this substance.

beehive — full definition

1. noun A structure, natural or built, in which bees live and produce honey.
2. noun A tall, rounded hairstyle piled up on top of the head.

honeycomb — full definition

1. verb To riddle something with small holes or tunnels, as bees do with a hive.
2. verb To weaken something gradually from within.

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