domicolous

English

Etymology

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Adjective

domicolous (not comparable)

1. That lives in a tubelike nest.
   • 2012, C.W. Hart, Pollution Ecology of Estuarine Invertebrates, page 347:

     There are many domicolous species which spin tubes or cradles from a web emitted from the apices of four of the 14 main legs.