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Wabe, feminine, ‘honeycomb,’ from the equivalent Middle High German wabe, masculine and feminine (waben, masculine) Old High German waba, feminine (wabo, masculine); literally perhaps ‘texture,’ allied to weben. It is scarcely connected with Latin favus. Allied also to Waffel.