Usually means: Carnivorous mammal native to Madagascar.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. fossa: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fossa, fossa: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fossa: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fossa: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Fossa, fossa: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fossa, fossa: Wordnik
  7. fossa: Wiktionary
  8. fossa: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. fossa: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. fossa: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. fossa: Dictionary.com
  12. Fossa (anatomy), Fossa (animal), Fossa (disambiguation), Fossa (geology), Fossa (planetary nomenclature), Fossa (river), Fossa: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Fossa: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. fossa: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. fossa: Rhymezone
  16. Fossa: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. fossa: Free Dictionary
  18. fossa: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. fossa: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fossa: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  4. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  5. fossa: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. fossa: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. fossa: Nine Planets Glossary
  3. FOSSA: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fossa, fossa: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)

(Note: See fossae as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (fossa)

noun:  (anatomy) A pit, groove, cavity, or depression.
noun:  (astronomy) A long, narrow, shallow depression on the body of an extraterrestrial body, such as a planet or moon.
noun:  A large nocturnal reddish-brown catlike mammal (Cryptoprocta ferox) of the civet family, endemic to the rainforests of Madagascar. It is slender, long-tailed and has retractile claws and anal scent glands.

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