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trogloxene

trogloxene noun: any organism which sporadically lives in underground habitats such as caves, and cannot live there exclusively.

Noun

trogloxene (plural trogloxenes)

  1. Any organism which sporadically lives in underground habitats such as caves, and cannot live there exclusively.
    • A basic difference between these two categories is that individual trogloxenes must leave caves periodically in order to complete their life cycles, whereas troglophiles may, if the opportunity presents itself (for instance, as a consequence of dispersion movements, bringing the individual near to...2014, Raúl Aguilar-Roblero, Mechanisms of Circadian Systems in Animals and Their Clinical Relevance, page 65

Forms of trogloxene

pluraltrogloxenes

Origin of trogloxene

From Ancient Greek τρώγλη (trṓglē, “hole”) + Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos, “foreign, of a stranger”).

Questions about trogloxene

What does trogloxene mean?
Trogloxene means any organism which sporadically lives in underground habitats such as caves, and cannot live there exclusively.
What part of speech is trogloxene?
Trogloxene is a noun.
What is the plural of trogloxene?
The plural of trogloxene is trogloxenes.

Words near trogloxene in the dictionary

  1. troglomorphs
  2. troglomorphy
  3. troglophile
  4. troglophiles
  5. troglophilic
  6. trogloxene
  7. trogloxenes
  8. trogocytic
  9. trogocytose
  10. trogocytosed
  11. trogocytosis

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