fossorial

English

Fossorial foreleg of Mole cricket

Skeleton of European mole, showing fossorial adaptions of forelegs

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

fossorial (comparative more fossorial, superlative most fossorial)

Of, pertaining to, or adapted for digging or burrowing.
The most specialized fossorial mammals (moles, marsupial mole) are subterranean, seeking food and shelter underground and rarely coming to the surface.[1]

Of, pertaining to, or adapted for digging or burrowing

fossorial (plural fossorials)

Digging animal

Rose,Kenneth D. The Beginning of the Age of Mammals. isbn=978-0-8018-9221-9 2009

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