Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Cancellous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Separated into spaces or divisions, as by cancelli.
- In anatomy, same as in zoölogy, but especially said of the light spongy or porous texture of bone resulting from numerous thin osseous laminæ with intervening spaces large enough to be readily seen by the naked eye. Such texture occurs in the ends of long bones, as the humerus and femur, and in the interior of most short, fiat, or irregular bones. The spaces are chiefly vascular channels, filled with connective tissue, fat, etc., between plates or layers of more compact bone-tissue.
- In botany, applied to leaves consisting entirely of veins, without connecting parenchyma, so that the whole leaf looks like a sheet of open network; in mosses, applied to cell-structure having such appearance.
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cancellous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plants; latticelike.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Having the surface coveres with raised lines, crossing at right angles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Consisting of a
network ofveins , withoutintermediate parenchyma ;lattice -like. - adjective zoology Having the surface covered with raised lines, crossing at
right angles .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows
- adjective having an open or latticed or porous structure
Etymologies
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Latticed: = cancellate; q.v. Latus: the side: broad.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Shell compressed triangular; whorls eight, the first nuclear, the next three cancellate and showing little or no trace of varices, which show themselves on the next (fifth) distinctly for the first time, suture deep, caused by the great convexity of the whorls.
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Shell short, broad robust, sides curved; spire about equal to the mouth; upper whorls nearly flat on the side; suture bordered by a slightly thickened margin; surface marked by a few large rounded revolving lines crossed by irregular lines of growth, so as to produce a semi-cancellate appearance.
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The short, thick form and rudely cancellate surface sufficiently distinguish this Yveve shell.
knitandpurl commented on the word cancellate
"Scatter patterns in sand, adnates, cancellates, gaping
whelk husks, a toy tractor-trailer, cracked
and dinged, beside the spine of a plastic tree,
the helmet-shaped shelter of a shadow cast
by a not-quite-buried wedge of pottery . . ."
"Hermit Crab" by Stephen Burt, p 28 of the August 5, 2013 issue of the New Yorker
August 13, 2013