Plural of foveola in English usage; small pit-like structures or indentations found in biological tissues.
An English-language pluralization of the Latin 'foveola,' used alongside the Latinate plural 'foveolae' in anatomical and scientific texts from the 1700s onward.
Even among scientists, there's friendly debate about which plural to use—'foveolas' or 'foveolae'—showing how English keeps stealing words from Latin but can't quite decide how to make them plural.
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