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Definition of Favas
1. n. See Favus,
Definition of Favas
1. Noun. (plural of fava) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Favas
1. fava [n] - See also: fava
Lexicographical Neighbors of Favas
Literary usage of Favas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Henry Martyn Baird (1895)
"25. estant deputies to reassemble within its walls on the twenty-fifth of November,
1620. To Viscount favas, one of the deputies-general selected ..."
2. The Mineral Deposits of South America by Joseph Theophilus Singewald (1919)
"Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der sogenannten "favas" der brasilianischen Diamant-
... Mineralogy of the pebbles of high specific gravity known as favas found in ..."
3. Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister to Henry the by Maximilien de Béthune Sully (1778)
"favas*, who conducted that of Reole, put me at the head of fifty ... for the
ex- * John favas, called captain fA town in Perigord, upon Faras. the confines ..."
4. Elements of Mineralogy, Crystallography and Blowpipe Analysis: From a by Alfred Joseph Moses, Charles Lathrop Parsons (1916)
"... as masses of dark, greenish gray color with fibrous concentric "Glaskopf"
structure resulting from decomposed zircon and locally known as "Zircon favas. ..."
5. The Mining World Index of Current Literature by George E Sisley (1916)
"Farrington, OC—Studies of Brazilian favas. [favas is the name given to a number
of rare mineral-stones occurring with diamonds. Analysis and the results of ..."
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