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Definition of Foveolate
1. a. Having small pits or depressions, as the receptacle in some composite flowers.
Definition of Foveolate
1. Adjective. Having small pits or depressions, like the receptacle in some composite flowers. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Foveolate
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Foveolate
1. Having minute pits (foveolae) or small depressions on the surface. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foveolate
Literary usage of Foveolate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the African Plants by William Philip Hiern, Alfred Barton Rendle, Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (1898)
"quite ripe foveolate. Parasitic on the rhizomes of low Cyperaceae, in damp shortly
grassy pastures along the ..."
2. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. by American Entomological Society (1892)
"... strongly foveolate; ;i|» \ of femora, ... very strong and foveolate, the
lateral margins also strongly ..."
3. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington by Entomological Society of Washington (1913)
"... and without well defined punctures; mesonotum opaque with separate well denned
punctures; suture between the scutum and scutellum foveolate; ..."
4. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1914)
"... pre- scutum with complete longitudinal furrow which is finely foveolate; ...
coarsely foveolate and forming aU posteriorly where they are reticulate; ..."
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