Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Characterized by vagility; able to move about or disperse in a given environment: a vagile animal species.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Wandering; vagrant; not sedentary; not fixed.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having freedom to move about
Etymologies
- From German vagil, from Latin vagus ("wandering"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin vagus, wandering + -ile1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“As climate change effects become more pronounced (e.g., degree-day boundaries or mean temperature isotherms shift northward), the more ecologically vagile species are likely to extend their geographic ranges northward [17].”
Changes in aquatic biota and ecosystem structure and function in the Arctic
“Secondary regrowth, however, has begun to offer opportunities for dispersal for a wide range of taxa, although significant movements of less vagile species such as salamanders, wildflowers, and land snails might require centuries.”
“The pikas and water shrews and chipmunks and woodrats weren’t so vagile and adventurous as reptiles and birds often are.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘vagile’.
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phrontistery-v
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Logolepsy
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Anagram Weapons
I'm looking for single-word anagrams of weapon names. Your additions are welcomed. A spoilt pilot's pistol to the best submitted.
This list was born when I noticed oppugn was an anagra...oppugn, pears, flier, ragged, pilots, spoilt, words, repair, admires, enraged, reaps, pagan and 20 more...
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on the road again
waifs and estrays, errant, stray, prodigal, mendicant, tripper, trekker, trouper, tourist, adventurer, jet-setter, voyager and 59 more...
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Professional Scrabble Lexicon (TWL)
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Rabindranath Not Included
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psychogeography
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Marginilia
intertextuality, queer, serendipity, eerie, semiotics, schadenfreude, calliope, logophile, marginalia, reductio ad absurdum, dabble, minutia and 141 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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Immrama
Magical Celtic Voyages
literally 'rowings about'The Voyage of Mae..., The Voyage of the..., The Voyage of Sne..., Voyage of St. Bre..., peregrinatio, The Voyage of the..., immrama, Vita Columbae, Vita Albie, Vita Fintani seu ..., peripteral, repechage and 85 more...
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rduke's Words
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Miscellany, pt. v
vaginant, vaginismus, voynich, vagile, vorticella, versute, vorspiel, vellus, viomycin, variorum, veltheimia
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Unlikely or unbeloved
no more.
abiotic, adoxography, xenodocheionology, xyloid, xanthochroid, zoanthropy, zoic, zomotherapy, wayzgoose, vagile, vacuity, vaginate and 6 more...
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