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† faˈvaginous, a. Obs.
Also 7 faviginous.
[f. L. favus honeycomb; perh. on false analogy of farraginous, or of L. fabaginus, oleaginus.]
Formed like or resembling a honeycomb in appearance; cellular.
1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus II. 515 A like ordination there is in the favaginous Sockets..of the noble flower of the sunne. 1686Plot Staffordsh. 201 A third [membrane]..faviginous like a hony-comb or tripe, without. 1692–1708Coles, Favaginous. 1884in Syd. Soc. Lex. |