Definition of Alveolate
1. Adjective. Pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb).
Similar to: Cellular
Derivative terms: Alveolus
Definition of Alveolate
1. a. Deeply pitted, like a honeycomb.
Definition of Alveolate
1. Adjective. Having a structure containing honeycomb-like cavities ¹
2. Noun. (biology) A grouping of protists comprising the ciliates, sporozoa and dinoflagellates ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Alveolate
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Alveolate
1. Pitted or honeycombed on the surface. (09 Oct 1997)
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Literary usage of Alveolate
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1. A Manual Flora of Madeira and the Adjacent Island of Porto Santo and the by Richard Thomas Lowe (1868)
"Recept. sub- convex alveolate clothed with long chaffy scales. — Rank ann.
scentless herbs or weeds. L. opposite. Fl. with or without ray ; ray w. ..."
2. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter, Aven Nelson (1909)
"... rather long and narrow: stamens and style sometimes but little longer than
the corolla: seeds 12-22, angled by pressure, rather deeply alveolate. ..."
3. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1906)
"... C valvate ;D, fR - opposed to side; F, alveolate, from above, x io. each other.
... with one of the plates of the skeleton, and also "alveolate" ..."
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