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a combining form meaning “inhabiting” the thing or place specified by the initial element, used in the formation of compound words: nidicolous.
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Origin of -colous

<Latin -col(a), combining form representing colere to inhabit (cf. colonus) + -ous

Words nearby -colous

colour supplement, colour temperature, colourwash, colourway, coloury, -colous, colpalgia, colpatresia, colpectasis, colpectomy, colpitis
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British Dictionary definitions for -colous

-colous
adj combining form
inhabiting or living onarenicolous

Word Origin for -colous

from Latin -cola inhabitant + -ous; related to colere to inhabit
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