Fossae

Word FOSSAE
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Definitions and meanings of "Fossae"

What do we mean by fossae?

A pit, groove, cavity, or depression.

A long, narrow, shallow depression on the body of an extraterrestrial body, such as a planet or moon.

Despite the previous definition, (which also happens to be spelled incorrectly - ie: Foosa), this animal does indeed exist. It is NOT however a slang term used to refer to hyenas, as previously stated. Many people have recently been introduced to this animal by the movie "Madagascar." The Fossa(Cryptoprocta ferox)is the largest carnivore endemic to the island of Madagascar, and is a catlike member of the civet family. It usually hunts alone and commonly feeds on birds and lemurs but also preys on livestock. This is precisely why the lemur characters in the movie were always afriad of "The Fossa!" Urban Dictionary

Fos-ay Term used to describe "Absolute Luxury" Urban Dictionary

Something that is built up to be great but is utterly disappointing. The Fossa is a meat-eating mammal from the island of Madagascar and was built up at Marwell Zoo to be the most 'mysterious creature' about. It was rubbish. Urban Dictionary

A deep groove on a flat surface that magically attracts readas to be stuck in them. Commonly found near Via Appia. Urban Dictionary

Aka "sternal notch." a great place to deposit semen when you give a girl a "pearl necklace." Urban Dictionary

A kind of ditch that magically attracts raeda to be stuck in it. Urban Dictionary

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The word "fossae" in example sentences

Arsia Mons, he said, is home to the biggest mountain glacier on Mars now buried, but as much as three miles deep when snow was falling in ancient times, climate modelers have concluded, and the area is filled with hundreds of miles of deep fractures in the ground, or “fossae,” as such Martian features are called. ❋ Marc Kaufman (2011)

And the presence of the glands in this location might explain another unusual aspect of metriorhynchid cranial anatomy, namely the strange elongate, groove-like antorbital fossae present in these animals (the antorbital fossa is an accessory opening present on the side of the skull in archosaurs). ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

The thing was a complex mess of bony laminae and concavities (termed fossae), few of which were symmetrical when you compared the two sides. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

I worked out that about 60% of each of its lateral surfaces was occupied by the fossae that housed lateral air sacs, and because the specimen is broken in half I could also see that very little of its interior was filled up by internal bony struts: most of it would have been air. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

In MIWG. 7306, three large concavities (termed fossae) occupy most of the lateral surfaces, and these fossae themselves are subdivided into smaller fossae, with some of these subdivisions having further subdivisions. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

Importantly, the fossae are connected (via openings on their bony walls) to large internal chambers. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

Bony struts, called laminae, divide the fossae and connect the main ‘landmarks’ of the bone (such as the pre - and postzygapophyses), and each of these laminae has a name. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

Fernández & Gasparini (2000) suggested that the specialised fossae might have been used to drain unwanted saline secretions from the glands – a novel function for the structures not seen in other archosaurs. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

Perhaps the most remarkable thing about sauropod vertebrae is how pneumatic they were – the lateral fossae, and the interior of the vertebrae, were occupied, in life, by air sacs. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

A recently taken high resolution stereo camera picture shows the Mangala fossae trough, which is a system of outflow channels on Mars. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Rhodes was besieged, [291] fossae urbis cadaveribus repletae sunt, the ditches were full of dead carcases: and as when the said Suleiman, great Turk, beleaguered Vienna, they lay level with the top of the walls. ❋ Unknown (2007)

For an expanded definition and pictures of the [Fossa] please see Encyclopedia [Brittanica] online. "We thank you with enormous gratitude for chasing away the [fossa] (foo-sah). " - Julian "[Madagascar]" ❋ CrrrlyGirl (2008)

[That chick] is [fossae] [as fuck]. ❋ Malibu Booze Crew (2017)

Will: The new Wembely [stadium] will [be ready] soon [Megan]: I hope its not a fossa ❋ Will Satterthwaite (2006)

[Cave] fossam! Reada in [fossa] [est]. Reada adhuc in fossa est. ❋ Yes, I Am A Mike (2017)

i [filled] [that bitch's] pearl necklace fossa [the other night] ❋ Sudmat (2009)

[Raeda] in fossa [est]. [Cave] fossam! ❋ Flawia (2016)

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