(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:37:03

Fa*vel"la (?), n. [NL., prob. from L. favus a honeycomb.] Bot.

A group of spores arranged without order and covered with a thin gelatinous envelope, as in certain delicate red algae.

 

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