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Fossa

noun
(pl. fossae)
1.
A concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression).  Synonym: pit.
2.
Monotypic genus of Madagascar civets closely related to palm civets.  Synonym: genus Fossa.
3.
Largest carnivore of Madagascar; intermediate in some respects between cats and civets.  Synonyms: Cryptoprocta ferox, fossa cat.



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"Fossa" Quotes from Famous Books



... provisions up the Rhone, in consequence of the mouth of the river being obstructed with sand-banks. To remedy this inconvenience, he undertook a great and laborious work, which, from him, was called Fossa Marina: this was a large canal, beginning at his camp, near Arles, and carried on to the sea, which was fed with water from the Rhone; through this canal, the largest transports could pass. After his victory over the Cimbrians, ...
— Robert Kerr's General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 18 • William Stevenson

... right as apparently to belong to a distinct individual; a left 'ulna', which, though complete, is pathologically deformed, the coronoid process being so much enlarged by bony growth, that flexure of the elbow beyond a right angle must have been impossible; the anterior fossa of the humerus for the reception of the coronoid process being also filled up with a similar bony growth. At the same time, the olecranon is curved strongly downwards. As the bone presents no sign of rachitic degeneration, it may be supposed that an injury ...
— On Some Fossil Remains of Man • Thomas H. Huxley



Words linked to "Fossa" :   cavum, viverrine, family Viverridae, Viverridae, Viverrinae, incurvation, incurvature, concavity, glenoid cavity, fanaloka, pit of the stomach, viverrine mammal, family Viverrinae, concave shape, bodily cavity, cavity, mammal genus



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