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Definition of Pitted

1. Adjective. Pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb).

Definition of Pitted

1. a. Marked with little pits, as in smallpox. See Pit, v. t., 2.

Definition of Pitted

1. Verb. (past of pit) ¹

2. Adjective. Having a surface marked by pits; pockmarked or alveolate ¹

3. Adjective. (context: of fruit) Having had the pits removed ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pitted

1. pit [v] - See also: pit

Medical Definition of Pitted

1. 1. Marked with little pits, as in smallpox. See Pit. 2. Having minute thin spots; as, pitted ducts in the vascular parts of vegetable tissue. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pitted

Literary usage of Pitted

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Histology of Medicinal Plants by William Mansfield (1916)
"pitted VESSELS pitted vessels are met with most frequently in woods and ... There are two distinct types of pitted vessels—ie, simple pitted vessels and ..."

2. Earth Features and Their Meaning: An Introduction to Geology for the Student by William Herbert Hobbs (1912)
"Fosse between an outwash plain (in the foreground) and the moraine, which rises to the left in the middle distance. Ann Arbor, Michigan. pitted plains ..."

3. Primitive Industry by Charles Conrad Abbott (1881)
"pitted STONES. AMONG the many stone objects that are to be classed strictly as domestic utensils, left by the former occupants of the Atlantic seaboard of ..."

4. Comparative Anatomy of the Vegetative Organs of the Phanerogams and Ferns by Anton Bary (1884)
"From this an uninterrupted group of large prismatic pitted ... j/ is connected with the inner pitted ..."

5. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"Gradational types, pitted plains, patches of gravel and sand.1—Out- wash plains sometimes ... This topographic type has received the name of pitted plain. ..."

6. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"Gradational types, pitted plains, patches of gravel and sand.1—Out- wash plains sometimes ... This topographic type has received the name of pitted plain. ..."

7. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"Gradational types, pitted plains, patches of gravel and sand.1—Out- wash plains sometimes ... This topographic type has received the name of pitted plain. ..."

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