The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alveolate \Al"ve*o*late\,
[L. alveolatus, fr. alveolus.] (Bot.) Deeply pitted, like a honeycom
Wiktionary
a. having a structure containing honeycomb-like cavities n. (context biology English) A grouping of protists comprising the ciliates, sporozoa and dinoflagellates
WordNet
adj. pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) [syn: faveolate, cavitied, honeycombed, pitted]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "alveolate".
Behind him, even as he flew, almost three and a half tons of rubbery meat, membrane and alveolate bone crashed down shuddering and raised a cloud of dust.
By comparison, the alveolate bones and membranous flesh of the flyer were like tissue paper.
The creature was all heart, muscle, alveolate bone and flexible cartilage, but mainly wing.
But the shattered pines had pierced its membranous wings and crushed their fragile alveolate bones, and all its energy had drained away along with its fluids.
Fully dressed again, he sliced gobbets of flesh from the flyer's alveolate ribs, sliding them one by one down his throat.
As the creature's fifty-foot span of membranous manta wing, spongy flesh, cartilage and alveolate bone swooped low overhead, Harry leaped and snatched at the harness fittings under its neck.
Drawn by the instant capillary action of his myriad thirsting fibres, it soaked into him, filled his desiccated pores and veins, his spongy organs and yawning, aching alveolate bones.