Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A small fossa; specifically, a vacant space representing one of the primitive septa of certain corals, as the Rugosa, more fully called a septal fossula. Also fossule.
- n. In anatomy, one of the numerous slight depressions on the surface of the brain.
Wiktionary
- n. anatomy A small fossa.
Etymologies
- From Latin fossula ("small ditch or trench"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Fossa - ae: = fossula; q.v. Fossoria: burrowers: in Orthoptera, the mole crickets and allies; in”
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Palynology
List of terms used in the study and classification of pollen and spores - both fossil and modern.
tetrad, abporal, ectoaperture, lacuna, grain, spore, lophate, acalymmate, monad, polyad, hexad, calymmate and 513 more...
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Cavity or Hollow
Words related to cavity or hollow.
sinus, lacuna, fossa, cavum, crater, vacuity, void, caries, bursa, alveolus, fossula, fossule and 6 more...
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