Usually means: Depressions or trenches in anatomy.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. fossae: Merriam-Webster
  2. fossae: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fossae: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Fossae, fossae: Vocabulary.com
  5. Fossae, fossae: Wordnik
  6. fossae: Wiktionary
  7. FossAE, fossae: Dictionary.com
  8. FossAe: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. FossAe: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. fossae: FreeDictionary.org
  11. fossae: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fossae: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. fossae: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. fossae: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fossa)

noun:  (anatomy) A pit, groove, cavity, or depression.
noun:  (astronomy) A long, narrow, shallow depression on the body of an extraterrestrial body, such as a planet or moon.
noun:  A large nocturnal reddish-brown catlike mammal (Cryptoprocta ferox) of the civet family, endemic to the rainforests of Madagascar. It is slender, long-tailed and has retractile claws and anal scent glands.
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