alveolate
Americanadjective
adjective
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having many alveoli
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resembling the deep pits of a honeycomb
Other Word Forms
- alveolation noun
Etymology
Origin of alveolate
First recorded in 1790–1800; from Latin alveolātus, “hollowed out, channeled”; alveolus, -ate 1
Example Sentences
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Chromalveolata includes the kingdoms dinoflagellates, apicomplexans, and ciliates, all within the alveolate lineage, and the diatoms, golden algae, brown algae, and oomycetes, all within the stramenopile lineage.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
The hymenium is alveolate, radiating, formed of the densely irregularly uniting gills; elongated, diamond-shaped.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha
Spores alveolate or muriculate, usually flattened and angular.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Plants large, subglobose, with alveolate, sinuate carbonous exterior.
From Synopsis of Some Genera of the Large Pyrenomycetes Camilla, Thamnomyces, Engleromyces by Lloyd, C. G.
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