Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In zoology, a shallow pit, or slightly pitted marking, like the pitting of a smallpox-pustule; a foveole.
- noun In lithoh., a spherulite of the rock called variolite.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A foveola.
- noun (Geol.) A spherule of a variolite.
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Examples
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Three Random Words: le quatre-épices = allspice râlant, e = infuriating la variole (f) = smallpox in garden, gardening | Permalink
garden, gardening 2009
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Algonquins returning from the land of the Abenaki reported a variole that was very dangerous, and many thousands of Indians died.41
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Algonquins returning from the land of the Abenaki reported a variole that was very dangerous, and many thousands of Indians died.41
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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le quatre-épices = allspice râlant,e = infuriating la variole f = smallpox in garden, gardening | Permalink
garden, gardening 2009
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