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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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- Wendy C. Ortiz Excavation (video game), a 2003 video game by WildTangent Excavate (disambiguation) Excavator (disambiguation) Excavata, a taxonomic grouping...
- Bodo (/ˈboʊdoʊ/) is a genus of microscopic kinetoplastids, flagellate excavates first described in 1831 by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg. The genus is...
- Excavators are heavy construction equipment primarily consisting of a boom, dipper (or stick), bucket, and cab on a rotating platform known as the "house"...
- Percolatea are a class of excavates in the phylum Percolozoa. Percolozoa Cavalier-Smith, T.; Nikolaev, S. (2008). "The zooflagellates Stephanopogon and...
- the excavates is given below, indicating that the group is paraphyletic. Except for some Euglenozoa, all are non-photosynthetic. Most excavates are unicellular...
- Neovahlkampfia is a genus of excavates. It is the sole genus within family Neovahlkampfiidae, order Neovahlkampfida and class Neovahlkampfea, which belongs...
- In geometry, the excavated dodecahedron is a star polyhedron that looks like a dodecahedron with concave pentagonal pyramids in place of its faces. Its...
- construction projects. For example, soil might be excavated to fill an embankment for a highway, clay might be excavated for use in brick-making, gravel to be used...
- Monopylocystis visvesvarai is a species of excavates, placed in the monotypic genus Monopylocystis, and belonging to the group Heterolobosea. Charles...