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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows;
[syn: cancellate, cancellated, clathrate]

2. having an open or latticed or porous structure;
[syn: cancellate, cancellated, cancellous]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cancellate \Can"cel*late\, a. [L. cancellatus, p. p. of cancellare, See Cancel, v. t.] 1. (Bot.) Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plants; latticelike. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zool.) Having the surface coveres with raised lines, crossing at right angles. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

cancellate adj 1: having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows [syn: cancellate, cancellated, clathrate] 2: having an open or latticed or porous structure [syn: cancellate, cancellated, cancellous]