pavementaladj.
/peɪvˈmɛntl/, U.S. /peɪvˈmɛn(t)l/ rare.
Relating to, characteristic of, or forming a pavement (in Anatomy and Zoology contexts cf. pavement n. 3d).
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pavemental1880
1880 Jrnl. Linn. Soc. 15 166 The dentition is typically pavemental in the Monoecious and ribbonlike in the Dioecious Gasteropoda.
1911 P. C. Rushen Hist. & Antiq. Chipping Campden 135 According to Bigland there were in 1786 many other pavemental gravestones in the church.
1973 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 77 139/1 One school favours a close-knit tetrarchic date (discounting certain minor architectural and pavemental accretions of a later period).
1996 Diabetes (Nexis) 45 1132 When confluent they take on a pavemental pattern routinely observed in epithelioid cell lines.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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