Cribrose
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Cribrose
Perforated like a sieve; cribriform.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
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cribrose
Perforated like a sieve; cribrate; cribriform; ethmoid.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
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Cribrose
perforated like a sieve
Etymology
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary L. cribrum, sieve
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary L. cribellum, dim. of cribrum, a sieve.
Usage in literature
It was without doubt Fries' cribrose reticularia; nobody questions that. "The North American Slime-Moulds" by