fŏvĕa (noun F) : kindred with favissae
* A small pit, esp. for taking wild beasts, a pit fall (syn.: scrobs, specus: fossa, etc.).
* Lit.
* In gen.: (humor) ut in foveam fluat,Lucr. 2, 475: (cadavera) Donec humo tegere ac foveis abscondere discunt,Verg. G. 3, 558.—Transf.: genitales feminae,i. e. the womb,Tert. Anim. 19.
* Trop., a snare (Plautin.): ita decipiemus fovea leonem Lycum,Plaut. Poen. 1, 1, 59; id. Pers. 4, 4, 45; cf.: ex iisdem foveis emergentes,conspiracy,Amm. 14, 9, 1

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