fossorial
IPA: fˈɑsˈɔriʌɫ
noun
- (zoology) Any digging animal (such as a mole)
adjective
- (zoology) Of, pertaining to, or adapted for digging or burrowing.
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Examples of "fossorial" in Sentences
- -- Pearsonomys annectans Patterson, 1992, a semi-fossorial Chilean murid.
- Burrow structure and fossorial ecology of the springhare Pedetes capensis in Botswana.
- And those big hands that moles have testify to their underground lifestyle, fancy word -- fossorial.
- Slow-worms are nocturnal and semi-fossorial and mostly occur in well-vegetated places with thick ground cover and loose soils.
- These include colonial fossorial rodents (marmots, ground squirrels) large birds of prey, and phytophagous insects (grasshoppers).
- In seeking food and avoiding enemies in different habitats the limbs and feet radiate in four diverse directions; they either become _fossorial_ or adapted to digging habits,
- The aquatic origin seems very illogical since no aquatic lineage of lizard has ever lost its limbs but fossorial lizards have undergone limb reduction or loss on multiple occasions.
- Of special interest to me right now are the dinosaurs of the British Wealden (of course), the intriguing tie-ins between Wealden fossil collectors, Conan Doyle's Lost World and the Piltdown fiasco, convergence between different fossorial tetrapods, manatee evolution, and British big cats (yes, really).
- Four of the endemics are representatives of the three endemic genera in the hotspot: a rodent (Microakodontomys transitorius), known only from a single specimen collected in 1986 in the Brasília National Park; the Candango mouse (Juscelinomys candango), a semi-fossorial rodent first discovered in 1960 on the site of the capital, Brasília, then under construction, and which has never again been collected; and the cerrado mouse (Thalpomys cerradensis) and hairy-eared cerrado mouse (T. lasiotis).
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