Hyphenation of fossa

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word fossa? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

fos-sa

Definitions of fossa:

1.	A concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression)
2.	Monotypic genus of Madagascar civets closely related to palm civets
3.	Largest carnivore of Madagascar Intermediate in some respects between cats and civets

Synonyms of fossa:

noun	pit, concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature, cavity, bodily cavity, cavum
noun	Fossa, genus Fossa, mammal genus
noun	fossa cat, Cryptoprocta ferox, viverrine, viverrine mammal

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