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deserticoles

deserticoles is the plural of deserticole.

Meaning of deserticole

Noun

deserticole (plural deserticoles)

  1. A desert-dweller; one who is deserticolous.
    • […] "deserticoles", by virtue of retaining their rainforest life style and repertoire of adaptations (transmuted as "fortuitous adaptations") are masquerading as "deserticoles".1997, B. Y. Main, Tropical rainforest mygalomorph spiders in the Australian desert: the irony of an adaptive legacy, in Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria

Questions about deserticoles

What is deserticoles the plural of?
Deserticoles is the plural of deserticole.

Words near deserticoles in the dictionary

  1. desertful
  2. desertfuls
  3. desertian
  4. desertic
  5. deserticole
  6. deserticoles
  7. deserticolous
  8. desertification
  9. desertified
  10. desertifies
  11. desertify

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