9 letters · 15 points in Scrabble
adjective pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb)
originBorrowed from New Latin faveolātus, from faveolus + -ātus, a diminutive of favus (“honeycomb”) modelled on alveolus; see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
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