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burrowers

burrowers is the plural of burrower.

Meaning of burrower

Noun

burrower (plural burrowers)

  1. Someone or something that burrows.
    • Near-synonym: tunneler
    Synonyms:
    tunneler
    1. An animal that lives in an underground hole that it has made itself.
      • We are walking south-west, down a gently increasing slope, with the old farm buildings of the tiny hamlet of Villemiers [in the department of Charente] visible on the other side of the valley a kilometre away. The Transon [a tributary of the river Charente] meanders in the bottom of the valley...2015, Dave Goulson, A Buzz in the Meadow: The Natural History of a French Farm, Picador, →ISBN, page 14

Questions about burrowers

What is burrowers the plural of?
Burrowers is the plural of burrower.

Words near burrowers in the dictionary

  1. Burrowbridge
  2. burrowed
  3. burroweed
  4. burroweeds
  5. burrower
  6. burrowers
  7. Burrowes
  8. Burroweses
  9. burrowing
  10. burrowing bug
  11. burrowing bugs

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