fossorial

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Fossorial foreleg of Mole cricket
Skeleton of European mole, showing fossorial adaptations of forelegs
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Etymology

From Latin fossōrius (“adapted for digging or delving”), from fodiō (“dig”).

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fossorial (comparative more fossorial, superlative most fossorial)

  1. (zoology) Of, pertaining to, or adapted for digging or burrowing.
    • 2006, Kenneth D. Rose, The Beginning of the Age of Mammals, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN:
      The most specialized fossorial mammals (moles, marsupial mole) are subterranean, seeking food and shelter underground and rarely coming to the surface.

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Noun

fossorial (plural fossorials)

  1. (zoology) Any digging animal (such as a mole)

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