a. Obs. Also 7 faviginous. [f. L. favus honeycomb; perh. on false analogy of farraginous, or of L. fabaginus, oleaginus.] Formed like or resembling a honeycomb in appearance; cellular.
1658. Sir T. Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, II. iii. 515. A like ordination there is in the favaginous Sockets, and Lozenge seeds of the noble flower of the Sunne.
1686. Plot, Staffordsh., 201. A third [membrane], smooth on the inside next the cavity in the center of the Volva, and faviginous like a hony-comb or tripe, without.
1692–1708. Coles, Favaginous.
1884. in Syd. Soc. Lex.
