A very small foveola; a tiny pit or minute indentation, especially used in botanical descriptions of very fine surface textures.
From 'foveola' with the diminutive suffix '-et,' creating a term for the smallest subdivision of this feature, used in highly technical botanical literature.
Scientists invented 'foveolet' to describe things so small they needed a word smaller than 'foveola'—it's the kind of nesting terminology that shows how specialized knowledge requires increasingly specific vocabulary.
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