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Webster 1913 Edition


Urbicolous

Ur-bic′o-lous

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Adj.
Of or pertaining to a city; urban.
[R.]

Definition 2024


urbicolous

urbicolous

English

Adjective

urbicolous (comparative more urbicolous, superlative most urbicolous)

  1. (biology) Living in an urban environment; city-dwelling.
    • 2007, Amadeo M. Rea, Wings in the Desert: A Folk Ornithology of the Northern Pimans, University of Arizona Press, ISBN 9780816524594, page 101:
      In many Latin American towns, the Black Vulture is urbicolous, throwing in its lot with humans, taking advantage of slaughterhouses, garbage dumps, and fishing docks.