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petricolous

petricolous adjective: rock-dwelling; living among or on rocks.

Adjective

petricolous (comparative more petricolous, superlative most petricolous)

  1. Rock-dwelling; living among or on rocks.
    • Alpine plants that cannot establish themselves in earthy gorges must adapt to a petricolous habit in cracks in rocks.
    • […] in the mighty Andes, this petricolous people who reared in very truth a culture of the stone[…]2004, Harold Osborne, Indians of the Andes, page 68

Forms of petricolous

comparativemore petricolous
superlativemost petricolous

Origin of petricolous

From Latin petra (“a rock”) + colō (“to inhabit”).

Questions about petricolous

What does petricolous mean?
Petricolous means rock-dwelling; living among or on rocks.
What part of speech is petricolous?
Petricolous is an adjective.

Words near petricolous in the dictionary

  1. petrichor
  2. Petrick
  3. Petricks
  4. petricolid
  5. petricolids
  6. petricolous
  7. Petridish
  8. petridophyte
  9. Petrie
  10. petrifact
  11. petrifaction

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