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burrowings

burrowings is the plural of burrowing.

Meaning of burrowing

Noun

burrowing (plural burrowings)

  1. The act or result of making a burrow.
    • These perforations may be readily distinguished from those more oblique and lateral burrowings which are often found in secondary fossils[…]1825, Thomas Thomson, Richard Phillips, Edward William Brayley, Annals of Philosophy

Questions about burrowings

What is burrowings the plural of?
Burrowings is the plural of burrowing.

Words near burrowings in the dictionary

  1. burrowing junctions
  2. burrowing owl
  3. burrowing owls
  4. burrowing parrot
  5. burrowing parrots
  6. burrowings
  7. burrowless
  8. burrowlike
  9. burrows
  10. Burrows-Wheeler transform
  11. Burrows-Wheeler transforms

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