excavatrix
English
Etymology
Probably from the scientific Latin specific epithet excavatrix.
Noun
excavatrix (plural excavatrices)
- (rare) A female that excavates; a female excavator.
- 1911, Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (translator), Jean-Henri Fabre (author), The Life and Love of the Insect, A. and C. Black, page 134:
- Later, the excavatrix becomes a baker: she kneads the cakes for the children into cylinders; the father is then the baker’s boy.
- 1911, Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (translator), Jean-Henri Fabre (author), The Life and Love of the Insect, A. and C. Black, page 134:
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