-cole, -cola, -coles, -colid, -coline, -colous +
(Latin: to inhabit, to live in, on, or among; to dwell; living among, dwelling in)
Suffixes that refer to the location, or habit, of growth. Used primarily in botanical and biological terminology to denote a plant or organism; having or characterized by a habitat as specified by the combining root.
Don't confuse this -cole, -cola , "inhabit, live in, dwelling in" unit with the following cole-, coleo- (sheath, scabbard, vagina); coll-, col- (neck); collo-, coll- (glue); colo-, col- (colon, large intestine); and colon-, coln- (farm, settlement) units.
psilicole, psilicolous
Dwelling in prairie or savannah habitats.
radicicole
Living in or on roots.
ramicole
Creatures that live where they can exist on twigs and branches.
ripicole
Living on the banks of rivers and streams.
rubicole, rubicolous
Living on brambles.
rupicole, rupicoline, rupicolous
Living among rocks or walls.
ruricole, ruricoline, ruricolous
Living in the country or fields.
sabulicole, sabulicolous
Living in sand.
sanguicole, sanguicoline, sanguicolous
Living in, or inhabiting, blood; such as, parasites.
sanguinicole, sanguinicolous
A rare spelling of sanguicole, sanguicolous
saxicole
Dwelling, inhabiting, or growing among stony places; something that lives on or among rocks.
saxicoline: rock life
Of, relating to, or characteristic of those creatures, or plants, that grow on or live among rocks.
saxicolous
Living in, on, or among rocks: "As a graduate student, he studied saxicolous lichens above the treeline in three different parts of the mountains in Colorado."
The word is from Latin, saxum, "rock" and -colous, "living" or "growing in or on" and it has been traced back to Latin -cola, meaning "inhabitant".
Other words with the same suffix were coined in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to describe the flora and fauna of our world.
sepicole, sepicolous
Living, or dwelling, in hedgerows.
silicicole, silicicolous
Living in or on flints or siliceous soil [containing, resembling, relating to, or consisting of silica or flint].
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Related life, live-word units:
anima-;
bio-;
vita-;
viva-.
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