petricolous

English

Etymology

From Latin petra (“a rock”) + colō (“to inhabit”).

Adjective

petricolous (comparative more petricolous, superlative most petricolous)

1. 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 […]