Word.ws English Dictionary

favaginous

favaginous adjective: resembling a honeycomb; cellular.

Adjective

favaginous (comparative more favaginous, superlative most favaginous)

  1. (obsolete) Resembling a honeycomb; cellular.
    • A like ordination there is in the favaginous Sockets, and Lozenge seeds of the noble flower of the Sunne.1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 181

Forms of favaginous

comparativemore favaginous
superlativemost favaginous

Origin of favaginous

Obscure formation from Latin favus (“honeycomb”). Compare deluginous (where the -in- is also unexpected); most -ginous terms derive from Latin words ending in g being suffixed with -īnus (“-inous”).

Questions about favaginous

What does favaginous mean?
Favaginous means resembling a honeycomb; cellular.
What part of speech is favaginous?
Favaginous is an adjective.

Words near favaginous in the dictionary

  1. fav
  2. fav'rite
  3. fava
  4. fava bean
  5. fava beans
  6. favaginous
  7. favas
  8. Favazza
  9. Favazzas
  10. fave
  11. faved

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: favaginous (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “favaginous.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/favaginous. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.