1) Adapted for digging 2) Digging or burrowing 3) Modified for digging
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It burrows or digs.
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A fossorial organism is one that is adapted to digging and life underground such as the badger, the naked mole rat, and the mole salamanders Ambystomatidae. It is an adjective most commonly used to describe the habit of living underground, even if the physical adaptations are minimal — thus, most bees and many wasps are called `fossorial Hymeno....
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Adapted for digging or burrowing (Morris 1992). It often refers to animals that live predominantly underground. Pocket gophers are good examples of Fossorial mammals.
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adapted for digging
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• (a.) Fitted for digging, adapted for burrowing or digging; as, a fossorial foot; a fossorial animal.
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A term used to describeorganisms that live under the ground.
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Describes animals that burrow
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Describes an animal that spends much of its life underground.
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Adapted for digging.
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Adapted for burrowing or digging.
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Modified for digging; in the habit of digging or burrowing.
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Fos·so'ri·al adjective [ Latin
fossor a digger.] Fitted for digging, adapted for burrowing or digging; as, a
fossorial foot; a
fossorial animal.
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Adapted for digging.
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burrowing. An animal that spends most of it s time in underground burrows or burrowing.
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adj] - (of limbs and feet) adapted for digging
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fossorial 1. A description of animals that have large forelimbs or other special modifications for digging and burrowing. 2. A reference to the parts of an animal body used for this purpose. 3. Adapted for or used in burrowing or digging; such as, the fossorial forefeet of a mole.
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a phrase used to describe the legs of some insects and other invertebrates that are modified for digging.
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adjective (of limbs and feet) adapted for digging
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descriptive of structures modified for digging or burrowing.
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digging or adapted to digging
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digging or burrowing. · adapted for digging, as the hands, feet, and bone structure of moles, armadillos, and aardvarks.
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Fitted for digging.
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