(uncountable) The activity of applying pigments to the interior surfaces of caves to create images, especially when carried out in prehistoric times.

plural of cave painting

Any cricket of the family Rhaphidophoridae.

Physella spelunca (or Physa spelunca), a freshwater snail endemic to Lower Cane Cave in Wyoming, United States.

plural of cave physa

plural of cave physa

plural of cave cricket

plural of cave dweller

A large extinct species of bear, †Ursus spelaeus.

(philosophy, epistemology) An allegorical cave whose unwitting, chained inhabitants perceive reality only in the form of shadow puppetry cast by the light of a man-made fire, lacking any awareness of the limitations of their perspective or its constructed nature.