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fóvea.

fovea (slight depression or pit in a bone or organ)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈfɔ.vjɐ/Brazil/ˈfɔ.vjɐ/Portugal/ˈfɔ.bjɐ/Northern, Portugal[ˈfɔ.βjɐ]Northern, Portugal
  1. fovea (slight depression or pit in a bone or organ)

    feminine
  2. fovea (concavity found in the retina of some vertebrates (lizards, humans, diurnal birds, etc.), devoid of rods, which has numerous cones and corresponds to the area of greatest visual acuity)

    feminine
  3. fovea (excavation at the base of the leaves, located below the ligule in the inner part of the sheath, in plants of the genus Isoetes)

    feminine
  4. fovea (small cavity in a plant organ)

    feminine
Where this word comes from

Learned borrowing from Latin fovea (“ditch, pit”). Doublet of fojo.

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