excavatrix

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English

Etymology

Probably from the scientific Latin specific epithet excavatrix.

Noun

excavatrix (plural excavatrices)

(rare) A female that excavates; a female excavator.
- 1911, Jean-Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, The Life and Love of the Insect, A. and C. Black, page 134:
  Later, the excavatrix becomes a baker: she kneads the cakes for the children into cylinders; the father is then the baker’s boy.

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