Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Pitted with cavities or cells; honeycombed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Honeycombed; alveolate; pitted; cellular. Also
favose .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Honeycomb; having cavities or cells, somewhat resembling those of a honeycomb; alveolate; favose.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having
cavities orcells like those of ahoneycomb .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From New Latin faveolus : Latin favus, honeycomb + (alv)eolus.]
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Latin favus honeycomb.
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