cancellated

English

Adjective

cancellated (comparative more cancellated, superlative most cancellated)

  1. crossbarred; marked with cross lines
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Grew to this entry?)
    • 1660-61, Samuel Pepys, Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1661 N.S. Complete‎:
      This chamber, he states, "is inclosed with three doors, the inner cancellated, the middle, which is very thick, lined with skins like parchment, and driven full of nails.
  2. (anatomy) open or spongy, like certain porous bones
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