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anecic

anecic adjective: building deep vertical burrows and surfacing to feed.

Adjective

anecic (not comparable)

  1. Building deep vertical burrows and surfacing to feed.
    • “... (1) anecic species, which feed on fresh litter from the soil surface and pull it deep into the soil in permanent burrows...”2013 February 3, I.M. Lubbers et al., “Greenhouse gas emissions from soils increased by earthworms”, in Nature Climate Change

anecic meaning in Tamil

anecic in Tamil

நடுமட்ட புழு

Origin of anecic

From French anécique, coined by Marcel B. Bouché, French earthworm biologist (1971), from Ancient Greek ἀνέχω (anékhō, “to rise up, emerge”).

Words formed from anecic

Questions about anecic

What does anecic mean?
Anecic means building deep vertical burrows and surfacing to feed.
What is anecic in Tamil?
Anecic in Tamil is நடுமட்ட புழு. See Anecic meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is anecic?
Anecic is an adjective.

Words near anecic in the dictionary

  1. anechogenic
  2. anechogenicity
  3. anechogenous
  4. anechoic
  5. anechoically
  6. anecic
  7. anecophyte
  8. anecophytes
  9. anectic
  10. anecumene
  11. Aneel

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anecic (page history and authors); anecic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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