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Definition of Excavates

Excavate
Excavate Ex"ca*vate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excavated; p. pr. & vb. n. Excavating.] [L. excavatus, p. p. of excavare to excavate; ex out + cavare to make hollow, cavus hollow. See Cave.] 1. To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth. 2. To form by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow; as, to excavate a canoe, a cellar, a channel. 3. (Engin.) To dig out and remove, as earth. The material excavated was usually sand. --E. L. Corthell. Excavating pump, a kind of dredging apparatus for excavating under water, in which silt and loose material mixed with water are drawn up by a pump. --Knight.

Meaning of Excavates from wikipedia

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- Bodo (/ˈboʊdoʊ/) is a genus of microscopic kinetoplastids, flagellate excavates first described in 1831 by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg. The genus is...
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- muddy-bottomed coastal waters in China, Korea and ****an. This species excavates elaborate vertical burrows up to 90 centimetres (35 in) long in the sea...
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- City of Quartz: Excavating the ****ure in Los Angeles is a 1990 book by Mike Davis examining how contemporary Los Angeles has been shaped by different powerful...
- Pseudovahlkampfia is a genus of Excavates It includes the species Pseudovahlkampfia emersoni. Wiley Interscience v t e...
- Tetramitus is a genus of excavates. "The Amoebae". Retrieved 2009-06-25. v t e...