paleotoca

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Catalan

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Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese paleotoca.

Noun

paleotoca f (plural paleotoques)

  1. paleoburrow

Portuguese

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Etymology

From paleo- +‎ toca.

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: -ɔkɐ
  • Hyphenation: pa‧le‧o‧to‧ca

Noun

paleotoca f (plural paleotocas)

  1. paleoburrow
    • 2007, Cesar Leandro Schultz, Tafonomia dos icnofósseis de vertebrados da formação Guará (jurássico superior?) Rio Grande do Sul‎ (PDF), Porto Alegre: UFRGS, archived from the original on 2023-07-04:
      O arenito maciço foi interpretado como sendo o sedimento solto que recobriria o piso de paleotocas enquanto os blocos estratificados que estão imediatamente acima teriam sido originados pelo colapso do teto destas mesmas tocas.
      The solid arenite was interpreted as being loose sediment that had covered the paleoburrows floor while the stratified blocks that are right over it would have been originated by the colapse of these burrows' ceiling.
    • 2010 June 3, “Buraco em propriedade rural de Boqueirão do Leão teria sido feita por animal pré-histórico”, in Pioneiro‎, archived from the original on 2023-07-04:
      A descoberta de uma paleotoca no interior de Boqueirão do Leão, no Vale do Rio Pardo, surpreendeu os pesquisadores e o dono da propriedade. Há mais de 10 mil anos, o buraco teria sido escavado por um mamífero para utilizá-lo como abrigo.
      The discovery of a paleoburrow in Boqueirão do Leão's country, in the Rio Pardo Valley, has surprised the researchers and the property's owner. 10 thousand years ago, the hole would have benn excavated by a mammal to use it as a shelter.

Descendants

  • → Catalan: paleotoca
  • → Spanish: paleotoca

Further reading

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese paleotoca.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paleoˈtoka/
  • Rhymes: -oka
  • Syllabification: pa‧le‧o‧to‧ca

Noun

paleotoca f (plural paleotocas)

  1. paleoburrow
    Synonym: paleomadriguera
    • , Lima: Proexpansión, archived from the original on 2023-07-07, Historias:
      Una paleotoca es un laberinto gigante que, por las marcas de garras encontradas dentro del tunel, presuntamente habría sido cavado por algún perezoso o armadillo gigante, animales que dejaron de existir hace unos 10 mil años.
      A paleoburrow is a giant labyrinth that, by the claw marks found inside the tunnel, would presumably have been excavated by some ground sloth or giant armadillo, animals that have ceased to exist 10 thousand years ago.]
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