Dictionary entry

Cancellate

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Can″cel‐late (?), a. [L. cancellatus, p. p. of cancellare, See Cancel, v. t.] 1. (Bot.) Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plants; latticelike.

2. (Zoöl.) Having the surface coveres with raised lines, crossing at right angles.