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excavatrices

excavatrices is the plural of excavatrix.

Meaning of excavatrix

Noun

excavatrix (plural excavatrices)

  1. (rare) A female that excavates; a female excavator.
    • Later, the excavatrix becomes a baker: she kneads the cakes for the children into cylinders; the father is then the baker’s boy.1911, Jean-Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, The Life and Love of the Insect, A. and C. Black, page 134

Questions about excavatrices

What is excavatrices the plural of?
Excavatrices is the plural of excavatrix.

Words near excavatrices in the dictionary

  1. excavator operator
  2. excavator operators
  3. excavatorial
  4. excavators
  5. excavatory
  6. excavatrices
  7. excavatrix
  8. excave
  9. Exceat
  10. excecate
  11. excecated

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