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foosa

foosa is the misspelling of fossa.

Meaning of fossa

Noun (1)

fossa (plural fossae or (obsolete) fossæ)

  1. A pit, groove, cavity, or depression.
  2. A long, narrow, shallow depression on the body of an extraterrestrial body, such as a planet or moon.

Noun (2)

fossa (plural fossas)

  1. A large nocturnal reddish-brown catlike mammal (Cryptoprocta ferox) of the civet family, endemic to the rainforests of Madagascar. It is slender, long-tailed and has retractile claws and anal scent glands.

Forms of foosa

pluralfoosas

Questions about foosa

What is foosa the misspelling of?
Foosa is the misspelling of fossa.

Words near foosa in the dictionary

  1. foordite
  2. Foors
  3. foorth
  4. foorthwith
  5. foos
  6. foosa
  7. foosball
  8. foosballer
  9. foosballers
  10. foose
  11. Fooses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: foosa (page history and authors); fossa (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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