urbicolous

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urbicolous (comparative more urbicolous, superlative most urbicolous)

  1. (biology) Living in an urban environment; city-dwelling.
    • 2007, Amadeo M. Rea, Wings in the Desert: A Folk Ornithology of the Northern Pimans, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 101:
      In many Latin American towns, the Black Vulture is urbicolous, throwing in its lot with humans, taking advantage of slaughterhouses, garbage dumps, and fishing docks.