Noun: arvicole
| Singular | arvicole |
| Plural | arvicoles |
Sample Sentences
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A single species, A. quasiater, is known from Mexico. Evotomys rutilus, a form very closely related to the arvicoles, inhabits the circumpolar regions of both hemispheres. [1887, Angelo Heilprin, The Geographical and Geological Distribution of Animals, page 356:]
Nouns inflected like arvicole
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin arvum (“field”) + colo (“to inhabit”); compare Italian arvicola. See: Latin Nouns '
arvum', Italian Nouns '
arvicola'.