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re-excavations

re-excavations is the plural of re-excavation.

Meaning of re-excavation

Noun

re-excavation (plural re-excavations)

  1. A repeated excavation
    • The loess also, in the suburbs and neighbourhood of Liége, occurring at various heights in patches lying at between 20 and 200 feet above the river, cannot be explained without supposing the filling up and re-excavation of the valleys at a period posterior to the washing in of the animal remains...1863, Dawson, The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist, volume 8, page 122

Questions about re-excavations

What is re-excavations the plural of?
Re-excavations is the plural of re-excavation.

Words near re-excavations in the dictionary

  1. re-excavate
  2. re-excavated
  3. re-excavates
  4. re-excavating
  5. re-excavation
  6. re-excavations
  7. re-experience
  8. re-experienced
  9. re-experiences
  10. re-experiencing
  11. re-explain

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