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excavatrix

excavatrix noun: a female that excavates; a female excavator.

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

Forms of excavatrix

pluralexcavatrices

Origin of excavatrix

Probably from the scientific Latin specific epithet excavatrix. By surface analysis, excavate + -trix.

Questions about excavatrix

What does excavatrix mean?
Excavatrix means a female that excavates; a female excavator.
What part of speech is excavatrix?
Excavatrix is a noun.
What is the plural of excavatrix?
The plural of excavatrix is excavatrices.

Words near excavatrix in the dictionary

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

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