endogean

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) See endo- and geo-.

Adjective

endogean (not comparable)

  1. Relating to, or living in the soil or litter immediately beneath the surface

Noun

endogean (plural endogeans)

  1. Any organism that lives in this region
    • 2015 July 8, “Convergent Reduction of Ovariole Number Associated with Subterranean Life in Beetles”, in PLOS ONE‎, →DOI:
      We also studied the female internal system for a species in the subgenus Aphaenops (Cerbaphaenops), and two species belonging to two other genera, one endogean (Geotrechus) and one epigean (Trechus).
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