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Definition of Favose
1. a. Honeycombed. See Faveolate.
Definition of Favose
1. Adjective. (botany) honeycombed ¹
2. Adjective. (medicine) Of or pertaining to the disease called favus. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Favose
1. honeycombed [adj]
Medical Definition of Favose
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Favose
Literary usage of Favose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"... then sparsely filiate with short rigid bristles, 4 or 5 lines long, only twice
the length of the ovate mucronate capsule : seeds oval, favose. — Linn. ..."
2. Pittonia by Edward Lee Greene (1905)
"... dull-greenish with a close coating of the substance of the favose reticulation.
Apparently common among the hills of the interior of Los Angeles Co., ..."
3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"... seeds oblong, coarsely favose-reticulated. Calif, to Wash., and east to Montana
... obscurely favose-reticulated between the transverse corrugations. ..."
4. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"favose. Excavated In the manner of a section of honeycomb, as the receptacle of
many composites. ..."
5. Bulletin of the California Academy of Sciences by California Academy of Sciences (1886)
"... or more commonly brilliant orange throughout: inner margin of the torus short,
thin and nerveless : seed with prominent favose reticulations. ..."
6. Zoe: A Biological Journal by Townshend Stith Brandegee, Katharine Layne Brandegee (1891)
"Miss Alice Eastwood and Mr. Brandegee found it recently on Mt. Tamalpais.
The seeds are as Dr. Gray has said deeply favose, but varying in size from 1-2 mm. ..."
7. Bulletin of Pharmacy (1889)
"... or more commonly brilliant orange throughout: inner margin of the torus short,
thin, and nerveless: seed with prominent favose reticulations. ..."
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