plagicola = plain dweller

Lyn A. Craven Lyn.Craven at CSIRO.AU
Fri May 3 11:28:59 CDT 2002


Although not equating to the originally specified "coastal plain",
"plagicola" might do.

It's from the Latin , plaga, a flat surface hence a region, tract; and
-icola, dweller.

Or maybe just "plagae", of the plain.


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