Fossa Synonyms

fŏsə
A concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. pit
Monotypic genus of Madagascar civets closely related to palm civets
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. genus Fossa
Largest carnivore of Madagascar; intermediate in some respects between cats and civets
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. fossa cat
  2. Cryptoprocta ferox

Words Related to Fossa

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. sulcus
  2. infratemporal
  3. olecranon
  4. iliac
  5. commissure

Fossa Sentence Examples

  • The squamosals form the posterior outer margin of the orbits and are frequently continued into two lateral downward processes across the temporal fossa.

  • Indeed it forms the right arm of the Tiber, by which navigation is carried on at the present day, and is known as the Fossa Trajana.

  • North and east of the Fossa Magna the structure is concealed, to a very large extent, by the outpourings of the volcanoes which form so marked a feature in the northern part of Hondo.

  • Towards the Fossa Magna the folds bend sharply round until they are nearly parallel to the Fossa itself.

  • Behind the transverse fissure the lower end of the Spigelian lobe is seen as a knob called the tuber papillare, and from tree right of this a narrow bridge runs forward and to the right to join the Spigelian lobe to the right Vena cava in its fossa lobe and to shut off the transverse fissure from that for the vena cava.

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