Definition of "alveolate" [al•ve•o•late]

• Having a honeycombed surface. (adjective)

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• "The city of the future might also become so complex, so alveolate, so ungovernably large that its citizens will no longer be very visible to each other."
• "These observations from other representatives of both the chromist and alveolate groups support the hypothesis that the diatom's ability to generate animal-like action potentials was acquired and retained from the ancestral eukaryote protist host."
• "While further work to examine voltage activated channels and membrane excitability in the chromist, alveolate and protozoan groups is clearly required, the simplest explanation for the presence of voltage activated Na"