EGAVE

fossa

About 2.38 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

Similar words

pit cryptoprocta ferox fossa cat genus fossa depression recess concavity cavity hollow basin

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Word family

fossae fossas

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