statary

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adjective

Fixed; settled.

“Eciton army ants have a bi-phasic lifestyle alternating between a nomadic phase and a statary phase. In the statary phase they remain in the same location every night.”

OriginLatin statarius →
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Meanings

adjectivestatary (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsolete outside biologyFixed; settled.

    Eciton army ants have a bi-phasic lifestyle alternating between a nomadic phase and a statary phase. In the statary phase they remain in the same location every night.

    1 more example

    The set and statary times of paring of nails and cutting hair.

    1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latinstatarius“standing fast”
  2. Englishstatary

Latin statarius (“standing fast”), from stare (“to stand”).

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APA

statary. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/statary

MLA

“statary.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/statary. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “statary,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/statary.

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