Definify.com

Webster 1913 Edition


Cavitary

Cav′i-ta-ry

,
Adj.
(Zool.)
Containing a body cavity;
as, the
cavitary
or nematoid worms
.

Definition 2024


cavitary

cavitary

English

Adjective

cavitary (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to a (body) cavity.
    • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of all Maladies, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 151:
      With that sentence, Orman entered the unfamiliar world of oncology – swallowed, like his own lump, into the bizarre, cavitary universe of cancer.

Derived terms

Translations