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English
Noun
deserticole (plural deserticoles)
- A desert-dweller; one who is deserticolous.
- 1997, B. Y. Main, Tropical rainforest mygalomorph spiders in the Australian desert: the irony of an adaptive legacy, in Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria:
- "deserticoles", by virtue of retaining their rainforest life style and repertoire of adaptations (transmuted as "fortuitous adaptations") are masquerading as "deserticoles".
2002, Muhammad Sharif Khan, A Guide to the Snakes of Pakistan:Deserticole, inhabits mesic situations with sparse vegetation. […]
2009, S. I. Golovatch, R. D. Kime, “Millipede (Diplopoda) distributions: A review”, in Soil organisms:[…] arboricoles (= dendrobionts), symbionts of ants or termites, deserticoles etc. are habitually even less conspicuous, […] in Israel and the West Bank) are deserticoles.
2013 February 5, Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 430:[…] the most characteristic deserticole among millipedes is Orthoporus ornatus (Spirostreptida) in the southern US and adjacent parts of Mexico. Both these species are rare except in their native environments (Golovatch and Kime, 2009).
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de.zerˈti.ko.le/
- Rhymes: -ikole
- Hyphenation: de‧ser‧tì‧co‧le
Adjective
deserticole
- feminine plural of deserticolo
Latin
Pronunciation
Adjective
dēserticole
- vocative masculine singular of dēserticolus