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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In botany: One of the pits in a receptacle after the removal of the flowers, especially in the heads of composite plants.
- n. A pore in a fungus, as Polyporus.
- n. The depressed perithecium in certain fungi.
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“n. - instrument measuring altitude and azimuth of heavenly bodies. adj. - causing change; Medicine, changing gradually to healthy state; n. drug or other treatment changing nutritional processes. alveola”
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Logolepsy
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Pit, Depression or Alcove
English and Latin nouns meaning pit, depression or alcove
fovea, lacuna, alveola, recess, sinus, hiatus, zotheca, specus
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