fossorial

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

• Rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl

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.

• fossorialism
• fossorious
• semifossorial

• ambulatorial
• cursorial
• gressorial
• natatorial
• raptorial
• saltatorial
• scansorial

fossorial (plural fossorials)

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

• isosafrol