"Not only do we have the grooved teeth, we do have other structures in the skull that perhaps may be where the venom gland resided in a fossa or depression above the tooth row in the upper jaw," said David Burnham.
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Fossa
//ˈfɑsə//
Synonyms for "fossa" (6 found)
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Noun(2 words)
Strong matches (1)
Noun(1 words)
Related words (3)
Noun(1 words)
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5 entrieshas context
2 entriesis a
3 entriesrelated to
12 entriesTranslations
47 translations across 30 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- فوسا noun (Cryptoprocta ferox)
Assamese
1 entries- ফছা noun (Cryptoprocta ferox)
Bulgarian
3 entries- впадина noun (pit, groove, cavity)
- дългоопашата вивера noun (Cryptoprocta ferox)
- трапчинка noun (pit, groove, cavity)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 馬島狸 /马岛狸 noun (Cryptoprocta ferox)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 窩 /窝 noun (pit, groove, cavity)
- 窩靈貓 /窝灵猫 noun (Cryptoprocta ferox)
- 隱肛狸 /隐肛狸 noun (Cryptoprocta ferox)
- 馬島獴 /马岛獴 noun (Cryptoprocta ferox)
Czech
3 entries- fosa noun (Cryptoprocta ferox)
- jáma noun (pit, groove, cavity)
- příkop noun (pit, groove, cavity)
Dutch
1 entries- fretkat noun (Cryptoprocta ferox)
Esperanto
1 entries- foso noun (Cryptoprocta ferox)
Finnish
2 entries- fossa noun (pit, groove, cavity)
- kuoppa noun (pit, groove, cavity)
French
1 entries- fossa noun (Cryptoprocta ferox)
Georgian
1 entries- ფოსა noun (Cryptoprocta ferox)
German
2 entries- Fossa noun (Cryptoprocta ferox)
- Vertiefung noun (pit, groove, cavity)
Hebrew
1 entries- פוֹסָה noun (Cryptoprocta ferox)
Hungarian
1 entries- fossza noun (Cryptoprocta ferox)
Irish
3 entries- clais noun (pit, groove, cavity)
- fosa noun (Cryptoprocta ferox)
- log noun (pit, groove, cavity)
Japanese
1 entries- フォッサ noun (Cryptoprocta ferox)
Korean
1 entries- 포사 noun (Cryptoprocta ferox)
Malagasy
1 entries- fosa noun (Cryptoprocta ferox)
Maltese
1 entries- fossa noun (Cryptoprocta ferox)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- fossa noun (Cryptoprocta ferox)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- fossa noun (Cryptoprocta ferox)
Polish
2 entries- dół noun (pit, groove, cavity)
- fossa noun (Cryptoprocta ferox)
Portuguese
1 entries- fossa noun (Cryptoprocta ferox)
Russian
1 entries- фо́сса noun (Cryptoprocta ferox)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- ùdubina noun (pit, groove, cavity)
Sicilian
3 entries- fossa noun (pit, groove, cavity)
- fossu noun (pit, groove, cavity)
- pirtusu noun (pit, groove, cavity)
Slovak
1 entries- fosa noun (Cryptoprocta ferox)
Swedish
3 entries- fossa noun (pit, groove, cavity)
- fossa noun (Cryptoprocta ferox)
- fördjupning noun (pit, groove, cavity)
Thai
1 entries- ฟอสซา noun (Cryptoprocta ferox)
Turkish
1 entries- fossa noun (Cryptoprocta ferox)
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