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Webster 1913 Edition

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(fā′vŭs)

Noun.

[L., honeycomb.]

(Med.)

A disease of the scalp, produced by a vegetable parasite.

A tile or flagstone cut into an hexagonal shape to produce a honeycomb pattern, as in a pavement; – called also

favas

and

sectila

Mollett.