pitted
adjectiveMarked by pits.
adjectiveHaving the pit removed.
In leather manufacturing, said of skins having little spots or holes in the grain which mark but do not pierce it. They are caused by decomposition or sometimes by the action of salt.
Marked thickly with pits or small depressions: as, a face pitted by smallpox; specifically, in botany, having pits or punctations, as the walls of many cells; in zoology, having many punctations, as a surface; foveolate; areolate.
adjectiveMarked with little pits, as in smallpox. See
Having minute thin spots.
verbSimple past tense and past participle of
Having a surface marked by
Having had the pits removed
adjectivepitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb)