Marked with or containing small pits or foveolae; having a pitted or dimpled surface texture.
From Latin 'foveolatus,' the adjectival form of 'foveola,' commonly used in 18th-century botanical and zoological descriptions to classify surface textures.
Botanists use 'foveolate' to describe plant surfaces, and when you look at a foveolate leaf under a microscope, it looks surprisingly similar to a golf ball—nature engineered that dimpled pattern millions of years before sports equipment did.
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