The Collaborative International Dictionary
Favosite \Fav"o*site\, a. (Zo["o]l.) Like or pertaining to the genus Favosites.
Wiktionary
a. (context zoology English) Like or pertaining to the genus ''Favosites''.
Usage examples of "favosite".
But the time of these old fishes and of many more animals came and went, and still the home of the Favosites lay in the ground.
From these, other little Favosites were formed, till at last there were so many of them, and they were so crowded together, that, to economize the limestone they built with, they had to make their cells six-sided, like those of a honey-comb: on this account they are called Favosites.
But at last a change came: there was a great rush of muddy water from the land, and all the Favosites died, leaving only a stony skeleton to prove that industrious Polyps had ever existed there.
It ploughed its way across Ontario, and the skeleton of our Favosites was rooted out from the quiet place where it had lain so long, and was caught up in a crevice of the ice.
At last it stopped, and as it gradually melted away, all the rocks and stones and dirt it had carried with it thus far, were deposited into one great heap, and the home of the Favosites along with them.