Largest carnivore of Madagascar; intermediate in some respects between cats and civets.
Long, narrow, shallow depression.
A concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression)
In anatomy, a fossa (; plural fossae ( or ); from the Latin "fossa", ditch or trench) is a depression or hollow, usually in a bone, such as the hypophyseal fossa (the depression in the sphenoid bone).