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со́ты — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • honeycomb verb To riddle something with small holes or tunnels, as bees do with a hive.

Senses

со́ты is used for these senses in English:

  • 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.
  • honeycomb (countable, by extension) Something resembling honeycomb (sense 1) in having numerous cells or small holes.

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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