Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Growing on or living among rocks.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Living or growing on or among rocks. Also
saxicole .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Growing on rocks.
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- adjective
Growing on, orliving among,rocks .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective growing on or living among rocks
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Agamines are a really interesting group in terms of adaptation: we have scansorial, arenicolous and saxicolous species, the evolution of viviparity, and morphological transitions such as external ear loss.
Archive 2006-12-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Agamines are a really interesting group in terms of adaptation: we have scansorial, arenicolous and saxicolous species, the evolution of viviparity, and morphological transitions such as external ear loss.
Harduns and toad-heads; a tale of arenicoly and over-looked convergence Darren Naish 2006
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As a general rule I should almost be inclined to say that the finer the color of the thallus of any given lichen, the more is that lichen to be suspected of poverty in valuable coloring matters; and that, on the other hand, the palest pulverulent or crustaceous species, especially such as are saxicolous, may be expected to yield the most beautiful and valuable pigments (_e. g._ the Rocellas and
smeggo commented on the word saxicolous
Rock the house.
October 10, 2008