foveolate

Borrowed from New Latin foveolātus (“pitted”), by surface analysis, foveola +‎ -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

foveolate (comparative more foveolate, superlative most foveolate)

1. (zoology, botany) Having small pits or depressions, like the receptacle in some composite flowers.

• “foveolate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

foveolāte

1. vocative masculine singular of foveolātus