Crossword clues for fossae
fossae
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fossa \Fos"sa\, n.; pl. Foss[AE]. [L., a ditch. See Fosse.] (Anat.) A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal foss[ae] containing the nostrils in most birds.
Wiktionary
n. (en-irregular plural of: fossa)
n. (context obsolete English) (en-irregular plural of: fossa)
WordNet
n. a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression) [syn: pit]
monotypic genus of Madagascar civets closely related to palm civets [syn: genus Fossa]
largest carnivore of Madagascar; intermediate in some respects between cats and civets [syn: fossa cat, Cryptoprocta ferox]
[also: fossae (pl)]
See fossa
Usage examples of "fossae".
It ran in one of the Arena Fossae for a distance of some three hundred fifty kilometers.
But now Subarashii has built workers' quarters right next to it, and their jobs are to oversee the processing and the removal of the waste, north to Nili Fossae, where some integral fast reactors will use it.
The inner bank of the fossil watercourse was incised by two canyons that had been mostly untouched by water, ordinary fossae that showed what the main channel had probably looked like before the flood.
Beyond Burton Crater, which lay before them, the Memnonia Fossae cut the land east to west for hundreds of kilometers, blocking their way south.
They had to go west, toward Williams and Ejriksson craters, then south again toward Columbus Crater, and after that weave through a narrow gap in the Sirenum Fossae farther south and so on.
Soon they came to the Thaumasia Fossae, the fifth or sixth big fracture system they had encountered on their trip.
But now Subarashii has built workers’ quarters right next to it, and their jobs are to oversee the processing and the removal of the waste, north to Nili Fossae, where some integral fast reactors will use it.
They had to go west, toward Williams and Ejriksson craters, then south again toward Columbus Crater, and after that weave through a narrow gap in the Sirenum Fossae farther south— and so on.
These fractures included both the Mareotis Fossae and the Tempe Fossa surrounding them now.
In truth this part of Tempe was going to be one of the most dramatic coastlines on Mars, with the lower ends of some fossae filling to become long fjords or lochs.
Ahead to the south lay the Nilokeras Fossae, the terminal end of a canyon complex that began far to the south, in the enormous pit of Hebes Chasma.
The coast was fractured by a number of fossae, and square harbors were being built where these canyons plunged into the ice—Tyre, Sidon, Pyriphlegethon, Hertzka, Morris.
The coast was fractured by a number of fossae, and square harbors were being built where these canyons plunged into the ice-Tyre, Sidon, Pyriphlegethon, Hertzka, Morris.