[1885–90; ‹ L vag(us) wandering + -ile]This word is first recorded in the period 1885–90. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: foregut, lineup, retread, toner, upsweep-ile is a suffix of adjectives expressing capability, susceptibility, liability, aptitude,etc. Other words that use the affix -ile include: juvenile, quartile, senile, servile, sextile
Examples of 'vagile' in a sentence
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Most of the animals collected were vagile microcrustaceans.
João Miguel de Matos Nogueira 2003, 'Fauna living in colonies of Mussismilia hispida (Verrill) (Cnidaria: Scleractinia)in four South-eastern Brazil islands', Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technologyhttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132003000300014. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Samples of the vagile macrofauna were taken randomly at three-day intervals over the course of the recolonization period.
Henrique Grande, Marcelo Reis, Giuliano Buzá Jacobucci 2012, 'Small-scale experimental contamination with diesel oil does not affect the recolonizationof Sargassum (Fucales) fronds by vagile macrofauna', Zoologia (Curitiba)http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-46702012000200006. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Wolverines are highly vagile, inhabiting varied ecoregions that include boreal forest, taiga, tundra, and high alpine ecosystems.
Yessica Rico, James Morris-Pocock, Joanna Zigouris, Joseph J Nocera, Christopher JKyle 2015, 'Lack of Spatial Immunogenetic Structure among Wolverine (Gulo gulo) Populations Suggestiveof Broad Scale Balancing Selection.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4598017?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Cambrian tropical mudflats were characterized by the adaptive radiation of two contrasting groups: the vagile arthropods and the sessile poriferans.
Julián Monge-Nájera, Xianguang Hou, José A Vargas 2000, 'Disparity, decimation and the Cambrian "explosion": comparison of early Cambrian andPresent faunal communities with emphasis on velvet worms (Onychophora)', Revista de Biología Tropicalhttp://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-77442000000200006. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)