📚 Terricolous, adjective. 🔉 /tɛˈrɪkələs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (Zoology): (of an animal such as an earthworm) living on the ground or in the soil. ❗️ Examples: 1. The great majority of formicine genera, however, are both terricolous and cocoon-makers. 2. Similarly, some terricolous mosses are confined to calcareous soils in polluted areas, but are more widespread in non-polluted areas. 3. The book starts off with an colourful introduction to the pros and cons of the terms terricolous and epigaeous, and an overview of the terricolous lichen vegetation typology in Italy. 4. The proposition that tolerance of SO2 by these terricolous mosses depends on metabolic detoxification of dissolved bisulfite was investigated. 5. The first phase of my research addressed the question ‘do distinct terricolous lichen assemblages occur within these badlands as opposed to a random distribution of species?’ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic