alveary
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A beehive, or anything resembling a beehive.
noun
The hollow of the external ear.
noun
A repository, especially of knowledge or information.
Example Sentences
- "The value of an alveary or hive was 4d, and a swarm on a tree was recognised as free for the taking."
- "The effects of the hydriatic treatment upon inflammations of the brain are elimination of the matter of disease, partly through perspiration and eruptions on the head, but more through abnormal secretions from the alvearies or hollows of the ears, and from the nostrils (catarrh); oftentimes these secretions have quite an abnormal color and acridness."
- "In otoscopy alveary narrowed due to the omission of his caudineural wall."
- "(see title)"
- "I had to look up "alvearium", not a common term. I was pointed toward "alveary", a word with two intriguingly different definitions: first, a beehive, or something resembling a beehive and second, the hollow of the external ear. Apian aspects don't leap out at one here, so I'm going with the latter meaning, thinking of these sounds flowing around my own alvearies."
- "In the article the results of researches are presented on the determination of the composition of microflora of the alveary of dogs with the clinical signs of sharp outward otopyosis and the character of clinical-hematological changes of this disease."
Etymology
From Latin alvearium (“beehive”). In the sense of the hollow of the ear, because it is where the wax accumulates. In the sense of a repository: originally the name of a dictionary encompassing several languages, because of the many contributors being like "busy bees".
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: alvearium