adj. Having a structure containing honeycomb-like cavities
n. A grouping of protists comprising the ciliates, sporozoa and dinoflagellates
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Deeply pitted, like a honeycomb.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Same as alveolated.
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adj. pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb)
Word Usage
"The city of the future might also become so complex, so alveolate, so ungovernably large that its citizens will no longer be very visible to each other."