Usually means: Adapted for digging or burrowing.
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  1. fossorial: Merriam-Webster
  2. fossorial: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fossorial: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fossorial: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fossorial: Vocabulary.com
  6. fossorial: Wordnik
  7. fossorial: Wiktionary
  8. fossorial: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. fossorial: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Fossorial, fossorial: Dictionary.com
  11. Fossorial: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Fossorial: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. fossorial: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. fossorial: Rhymezone
  15. Fossorial: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. fossorial: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  17. fossorial: FreeDictionary.org
  18. fossorial: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. fossorial: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. fossorial: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. fossorial: Encyclopedia

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  3. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fossorial)

▸ adjective:  (zoology) Of, pertaining to, or adapted for digging or burrowing.
▸ noun:  (zoology) Any digging animal (such as a mole)

Similar:
fodient, fossilogical, fossilological, fossatorial, excavatory, faunal, zootic, fungoid, fungal, faunological, more...

Opposite:
non-fossorial, surface-dwelling, arboreal, terrestrial

Types:
subterranean, burrowing, underground, more...

Phrases:
fossorial mammal, fossorial foot, more...

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Similar:
fodient, fossilogical, fossilological, fossatorial, excavatory, faunal, zootic, fungoid, fungal, faunological, more...

Opposite:
non-fossorial, surface-dwelling, arboreal, terrestrial

Types:
subterranean, burrowing, underground, more...

Phrases:
fossorial mammal, fossorial foot, more...



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