Abstract: In order to further improve the crushing resistance and energy-absorbing capacity of the honeycomb structure, by periodically arraying typical star-shaped and star-rhombic cells, the reentrant star-shaped honeycomb structures (RSH) and the novel in-plane enhanced star-rhombic honeycomb structures (ESH) were constructed in this paper. The in-plane mechanical response and energy absorption characteristics of ESH under different loading directions were systematically investigated through experiments and finite element (FE) simulations. Compared with RSH, the negative Poisson's ratio characteristics of ESH under quasi-static compression are weakened, but the energy-absorbing capacities are significantly improved. In addition, by combining the deformation features of micro-topological cells, the deformation mechanism that the stress-strain response of ESH-y exhibits a double-plateau characteristic at low velocities of crushing is revealed, and the influence of the structural parameters α, t, and b on the plateau stresses is discussed. Based on the periodic layer-by-layer collapse deformation features of ESH under high-velocity crushing and the momentum theorem, the theoretical solutions of the high-velocity plateau stress in different loading directions are obtained, and theoretical results are in good agreement with FE results. This study can provide a reference for the innovative design of novel negative Poisson's ratio structures with better mechanical properties.