单词 | fossor |
释义 | fossor/ˈfɒsə/noun 1 Church 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. OriginLate 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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