variole noun. ['vɛ:rɪǝʊl] LME.
[formed as VARIOLA: see -OLE¹.]
1. A thing resembling a smallpox pustule or scar in appearance or formation; a shallow pit. LME.

2. Geology. A small spherical mass in a variolite. L19.

► Not recorded between LME and E19.

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