petricolousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

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 […]