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▪ I. ‖ fossa1 Anat.|ˈfɒsə|
Pl. fossæ.
[L. fossa ditch, fem. pa. pple. (understand terra, earth) of fodĕre to dig.]
A shallow depression, pit, or cavity.
1830R. Knox Béclard's Anat. 68 The inflation of the abdomen..causes the contents of the stomach to flow..into..the nasal fossæ or the mouth. 1856–8W. Clark Van der Hoeven's Zool. II. 505 Sphenostoma..Nostrils basal, placed in a fossa. 1870Rolleston Anim. Life 6 Between the temporal and the antorbital fossae.
▪ II. fossa2, foussa|ˈfɒsə, ˈfuːsə|
Also fosa.
[Malagasy: see fossane.]
a. A mammal (Cryptoprocta ferox), related to both cats and civets, which is the largest carnivore found in Madagascar.
b. Fossa fossa (popular names fossane, foussa, and fanaloka), a monotypic genus of civets also found in Madagascar.
1838W. Ellis Hist. Madagascar I. ii. 47 An animal of the badger kind, found chiefly, if not exclusively, in the Sakalava country; it is called fosa. 1883Encycl. Brit. XV. 435/2 C. ferox, the ‘foussa’ of the Malagasy. 1887Chisholm tr. Vogt & Specht's Nat. Hist. Anim. I. 184 The Fossa of the Malagasies or in scientific nomenclature Cryptoprocta ferox. 1916Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 8th Ser. XVII. 413 The Fossa (Cryptoprocta) has probably received more anatomical attention than any single genus of Carnivora. 1945F. Harper Extinct & Vanishing Mammals of Old World 249 Fossane..is presumably a diminutive of fossa and lesser fossa is an English translation of it. 1964E. P. Walker et al. Mammals of World II. 1262/1 Fossas walk in a flat-footed manner on the soles of their feet. Ibid. 1238/2 Fanalokas, Fossanes, Malagasy Civets... The fact that the generic name of this animal [Fossa] is the same as the vernacular name of another Madagascar mammal, the fossa (Cryptoprocta) should not lead to confusion, as they are distinctly different animals. |