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单词 fossor
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Definition of fossor in English:

fossor

noun ˈfɒsə
  • 1Church History. In the early Christian Church: a person in charge of burials; a gravedigger.

  • 2Chiefly Entomology. A fossorial animal; (originally specifically) a hymenopteran of the former division Fossores, which comprised most non-parasitic wasps; (in later use) a burrowing hymenopteran, especially a digger wasp of the families Sphecidae or Pompilidae.

Origin

Late 17th century (in an earlier sense). From classical Latin fossor person who digs the ground (in agriculture), person who works in a mine, miner, sapper, in post-classical Latin also officer of the early Church charged with the burial of the dead from foss-, past participial stem of fodere to dig + -or.

 
 

Definition of fossor in US English:

fossor

nounˈfɒsə
  • 1Church History. In the early Christian Church: a person in charge of burials; a gravedigger.

  • 2Chiefly Entomology. A fossorial animal; (originally specifically) a hymenopteran of the former division Fossores, which comprised most non-parasitic wasps; (in later use) a burrowing hymenopteran, especially a digger wasp of the families Sphecidae or Pompilidae.

Origin

Late 17th century (in an earlier sense). From classical Latin fossor person who digs the ground (in agriculture), person who works in a mine, miner, sapper, in post-classical Latin also officer of the early Church charged with the burial of the dead from foss-, past participial stem of fodere to dig + -or.

 
 
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