in natural history, the name of the waxen cells in bee hives. Also the name of a sea-foam of a conic figure, composed of a number of cells, like bee-hives, joined into each other, with a pipe of communication.

in anatomy, the sockets in the jaws wherein the teeth are fixed.—Some writers speak of teeth growing without alveoli. Pliny mentions a person who had a tooth in his palate. Eustachius relates, that he saw a man who at 60 had a tooth growing out of the middle of his fauces. Holler gives an instance of a person, whose teeth were of a piece with his jaws, without any insertion into alveoli.