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anecic en · ADJ

Etymology

From French anécique, coined by Marcel B. Bouché, French earthworm biologist (1971), from Ancient Greek ἀνέχω (anékhō, “to rise up, emerge”).

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, of earthworms) Building deep vertical burrows and surfacing to feed.
    • “... (1) anecic species, which feed on fresh litter from the soil surface and pull it deep into the soil in permanent burrows...” 2013 February 3, I.M. Lubbers et al., “Greenhouse gas emissions from soils increased by earthworms”, in Nature Climate Change:

Coordinates

epigeic · endogeic

Deriveds

endoanecic

Translations (2)

fr anécique (of earthworms: building deep vertical burrows and surfacing to feed) · pt anécico (of earthworms: building deep vertical burrows and surfacing to feed)