-colous
a combining form meaning “inhabiting” the thing or place specified by the initial element, used in the formation of compound words:
nidicolous.
-colous
combining form
inhabiting or living on arenicolous
word origin
from latin -cola inhabitant + -ous; related to colere to inhabit
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