Alveolate
71honey-combed — a. 1. Alveolate, cellular. 2. Perforated in every direction, eaten through in every part …
72cavernous — adj 1. deep set, hollow, sunken, yawning, retreating, abysmal; concave, depressed, hollowed out, indented; pitted, crannied, furrowed, honeycombed, rimous, faveolate, alveolate. 2. hollow sounding, rumbling, sepulchral; resonant, deep toned, deep …
73hollow — adj 1. empty, unfilled, hollowed, not solid, not dense, excavated, drained, vacant, blank; depressed, concave, dented, indented, caved in, Inf. stoved in; incurved, incurving, incurvate, cupped, cup shaped, alveolate, alveolated; dipping, sunk,… …
74honeycombed — adj cellular, cellulate, multicelled, alveolate, Anat., Zool. alveolar; perforated, porous, spongy, spongelike, holey, cribriform, crible , sievelike; pin pricked, pitted, riddled, shot through, punctured, pierced …
75open — adj 1. unclosed, unshut, wide open, agape, gaping, yawning, patulous, ringent, dehiscent; (of a door) unlocked, unbolted, unlatched, ajar, sprung, jimmied; (of a window) raised, up; (of a drawer) pulled out, sticking out, protruding; (of a box)… …
76faveolate — /fəˈviəleɪt/ (say fuh veeuhlayt), / lət/ (say luht) adjective honeycombed; alveolate; pitted. {New Latin faveolus (diminutive of Latin favus honeycomb) + ate1} …
77cavernous — [adj] hollow and large alveolate, broad, chambered, chasmal, commodious, concave, curved inward, deep, deep set, echoing, gaping, huge, resonant, reverberant, roomy, sepulchral, socketed, spacious, sunken, vast, wide, yawning; concepts… …
78hollow — [adj1] empty, hollowed out alveolate, arched, carved out, cavernous, cleft, concave, cupped, cup shaped, curved, deep set, depressed, dimpled, excavated, incurved, indented, infundibular, notched, not solid, pitted, striated, sunken, troughlike,… …
79faveolate — [fə vē′ə lit΄, fə vē′əlāt΄] adj. [< ModL faveolus, dim. of L favus, honeycomb] honeycombed; containing cells; alveolate …
80air cell — noun a tiny sac for holding air in the lungs; formed by the terminal dilation of tiny air passageways • Syn: ↑alveolus, ↑air sac • Derivationally related forms: ↑alveolate (for: ↑alveolus) • Hypernyms: ↑ …
