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Webster 1913 Edition


Favaginous

Fa-vag′i-nous

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Adj.
[L.
favus
a honeycomb.]
Formed like, or resembling, a honeycomb.

Definition 2024


favaginous

favaginous

English

Adjective

favaginous (comparative more favaginous, superlative most favaginous)

  1. (obsolete) Resembling a honeycomb; cellular.
    • 1658: A like ordination there is in the favaginous Sockets, and Lozenge seeds of the noble flower of the Sunne. — Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 181)