Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Resembling a honeycomb

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Honeycombed. See faveolate.
  • adjective (Med.) Of or pertaining to the disease called favus.

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  • adjective botany honeycombed
  • adjective medicine Of or pertaining to the disease called favus.

Etymologies

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Latin favus honeycomb.

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