Meaning

Ground-dwelling or growing close to the ground..

Definitions by Sense

1. Ground-dwelling or growing close to the ground.
2. Any insect that lives on or in the ground, especially one that is flightless.

Example Sentences

Man himself is terricole in habits, with vertical carriage, and walking on two feet.

The plant from Heald Brow is terricole, occurring on loose sandy calcareous earth about the entrances to rabbit-holes, in a very dry locality, Heald Brow being a dry hill on the scar-limestone.

The greatest bulk of the typical high altitude insects are generally small-sized, flightless or apterous, mostly heavily pigmented, terricole forms that occur under stones, in the immediate vicinity of glaciers, snow and melt waters.

These peculiarities depend largely on the moisture requirements of the terricole species. In humid weather, the top layer of the soil is usually highly saturated and moist, so that the terricole species generally occur on the upper layers of the soil.

The Terricoles are the true Crane Flies, seen in damp meadows in great numbers, especially in the autumn.

Still another subdivision of terricoles consists of species of high alpine habitats with scanty and very short vegetation.

Two types of grasshoppers are common in desert grasslands: terricoles, or soil mimics (the color pattern matches soil or rocks), and graminicoles, or grass mimics (the color pattern matches grass leaves).

Word Forms

• more terricole
• most terricole
• terricoles

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