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单词 favaginous
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favaginousadj.

Forms: Also 1600s faviginous.
Etymology: < Latin favus honeycomb; perhaps on false analogy of farraginous, or of Latin fabaginus, oleaginus.
Obsolete.
Formed like or resembling a honeycomb in appearance; cellular.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > hollowness > [adjective] > full of cavities > small
cellulate?a1425
cavernous1597
alveated1623
honeycombed1633
favaginous1658
cellulated1693
vesiculated1703
cellulous1712
cellulara1728
cellulose1752
cavernulous1758
comby1773
alveolate1793
vesiculate1828
cavernulated1875
cellularized1942
1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iii, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 126 A like ordination there is in the favaginous Sockets..of the noble flower of the Sunne.
1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Favaginous, full of or like honey or honey-combs.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. vi. 201 A third [membrane]..faviginous like a hony-comb or tripe, without.
1886 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Favaginous, formed like, or resembling, a honeycomb; like to, or allied to, Favus.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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