trogloxene

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any organism which sporadically lives in underground habitats such as caves, and cannot live there exclusively.

Word forms

trogloxene trogloxenes

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τρώγλη (trṓglē, “hole”) + Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos, “foreign, of a stranger”).

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