Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
alveolus .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
alveolus .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Archaic form of
alveolus .
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Examples
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In the chin there is a small part of the alveole of the tusk remaining.
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The photographer had placed the broken left canine-molar upside down in the right (the wrong) alveole. —
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