alvéole — meaning in English

English meaning

• dimple noun A small natural indentation in the skin, especially near the corners of the mouth or on the cheek.
• honeycomb verb To riddle something with small holes or tunnels, as bees do with a hive.

Senses

alvéole is used for these senses in English:

• alveolus (anatomy) Any of the many tiny air sacs in the lungs in which the bronchioles terminate and where oxygen and carbon dioxide are rapidly exchanged with the pulmonary capillaries.
• dimple A small depression or indentation in a surface.
• honeycomb (uncountable) A substance made by bees (clade Anthophila) primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells to hold their larvae, and for storing pollen and honey to feed the larvae and themselves when other food is scarce; it is also eaten by humans as part of comb-honey; (countable) a single sheet made up of two layers of this substance.
• honeycombed having a perforated structure, resembling a honeycomb

dimple — full definition

1. noun A small natural indentation in the skin, especially near the corners of the mouth or on the cheek.
2. noun A small dent or indentation in any surface.
3. verb To form a small indentation, or to show a dimple by smiling.

honeycomb — full definition

1. verb To riddle something with small holes or tunnels, as bees do with a hive.
2. verb To weaken something gradually from within.

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