Modified for digging; in the habit of digging or burrowing.
Adapted for digging or burrowing.
Referring to a burrowing life-style or behavior
Characterized by digging or burrowing.
descriptive of structures modified for digging or burrowing. View image
of or relating to burrowing or living underground
adapted for burrowing, digging, or tunnelling; frequently applied to the excessively broadened, spinose, or setose appendages typical of the Haustoriidae, Phoxocephalidae, Oedicerotidae, some Talitridae, and many Lysianassidae
(of limbs and feet) adapted for digging
living in an underground habit
Describes animals that burrow
burrowing or living below ground
adapted for digging and subterranean existence
(fä sôr' l) An animal that is adapted for digging, burrowing, and living in the soil.
Refers to any reptile which burrows under ground
Lives predominantly under ground. (Moles, pocket gophers)
An organism which digs in soil
Having a faculty of digging. The Fossorial Hymenoptera are a group of wasp-like insects, which burrow in sandy soil to make nests for their young. 75
Fossorial means relating to burrowing or living underground. Fossorial animals are adapted to living underground. Aardvarks, armadillos, and moles are fossorial animals.
A fossorial is an organism that is adapted to digging and life underground such as the badger, the naked mole rat, and the mole salamanders Ambystomatidae. It is most commonly used as an adjective to describe the habit of living underground, even if the physical adaptations are minimal - thus, most bees and many wasps are called "fossorial Hymenoptera", and a great many rodents are considered fossorial. Some organisms are fossorial to aid in temperature regulation, others utilize the new habit for food.