Meanings
nounexcavatrix (plural excavatrices)
plural excavatrices
- rareA female that excavates; a female excavator.
Later, the excavatrix becomes a baker: she kneads the cakes for the children into cylinders; the father is then the baker’s boy.
1911, Jean-Henri Fabre, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, The Life and Love of the Insect, A. and C. Black, page 134
Origin
Probably from the scientific Latin specific epithet excavatrix. By surface analysis, excavate + -trix.
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