English

Noun

excavatrix ‎(plural excavatrices)

1. (rare) A female that excavates; a female excavator.
   • 1911, Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (translator), Jean-Henri Fabre (author), The Life and Love of the Insect, A. and C. Black, page 134:

     Later, the excavatrix becomes a baker: she kneads the cakes for the children into cylinders; the father is then the baker’s boy.