“fossor”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

fossor

释义

‖ fossor|ˈfɒsə(r)|
[L. fossor in late L. sense of ‘grave-digger’.]
1. Eccl. An officer of the early Church charged with the burial of the dead.
1854Card. Wiseman Fabiola (1855) 205, I saw it all, answered the old fossor.1877Withrow Catacombs of Rome (ed. 3) 519 A very numerous class in the economy of the primitive church was that of the fossors, or grave-diggers.
2. [ad. mod.L. Fossores (P. A. Latreille 1817, in Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle X. 287), name of a group of Hymenoptera.] One of the burrowing Hymenoptera, the digger-wasps, formerly described as Fossores.
1899Cambr. Nat. Hist. VI. 95 The apterous condition of females of the Multillides and Thynnides is very anomalous in the Fossors.1919Jrnl. E. Afr. Nat. Hist. Soc. XV. 440 The Fossors are not true wasps.Ibid. 441 Each Fossor lives entirely an independent life.

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