petricolous
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin petra (“a rock”) + colō (“to inhabit”).
Adjective
editpetricolous (comparative more petricolous, superlative most petricolous)
- Rock-dwelling; living among or on rocks.
- Alpine plants that cannot establish themselves in earthy gorges must adapt to a petricolous habit in cracks in rocks.
- 2004, Harold Osborne, Indians of the Andes, page 68:
- […] in the mighty Andes, this petricolous people who reared in very truth a culture of the stone […]