fossorial
fossorial adjective: of, pertaining to, or adapted for digging or burrowing.
Adjective
fossorial (comparative more fossorial, superlative most fossorial)
- Of, pertaining to, or adapted for digging or burrowing.
- The most specialized fossorial mammals (moles, marsupial mole) are subterranean, seeking food and shelter underground and rarely coming to the surface.2006, Kenneth D. Rose, The Beginning of the Age of Mammals, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN
Noun
fossorial (plural fossorials)
fossorial meaning in Tamil, Persian and Vietnamese
fossorial in Tamil
- வளைவாழ்க்கை
fossorial in Persian
- of, pertaining to, or adapted for digging or burrowing
- دالانساز dalansaz
fossorial in Vietnamese
- of, pertaining to, or adapted for digging or burrowing
- động vật ở hang
Forms of fossorial
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more fossorial |
| superlative | most fossorial |
| Noun | |
| plural | fossorials |
Origin of fossorial
From Latin fossōrius (“adapted for digging or delving”), from fodiō (“dig”).
Words formed from fossorial
Words that rhyme with fossorial
- memorial
- monitorial
- territorial
- accessorial
- arboreal
- categorial
- equatorial
- factorial
- inquisitorial
- pictorial
- sartorial
- senatorial
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- tutorial
- accusatorial
- assessorial
- censorial
- combinatorial
- conspiratorial
- corporeal
- cursorial
- dictatorial
- directorial
- editorial
- enchorial
- epichorial
- executorial
- grallatorial
- imperatorial
- incorporeal
- intracorporeal
- lavatorial
- marmoreal
- multifactorial
- observatorial
- piscatorial
- primorial
- promontorial
- proprietorial
- purgatorial
- rasorial
- responsorial
- saltatorial
- scansorial
- sectorial
- spectatorial
- suctorial
- tectorial
- uxorial
- vectorial
- advertorial
- agitatorial
- amatorial
- ambassadorial
- ambulatorial
- ancestorial
- armorial
- assertorial
- auctorial
- auditorial
- authorial
Questions about fossorial
- What does fossorial mean?
- Fossorial means of, pertaining to, or adapted for digging or burrowing.
- What is fossorial in Tamil?
- Fossorial in Tamil is வளைவாழ்க்கை. See Fossorial meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is fossorial?
- Fossorial can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near fossorial in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fossorial (page history and authors); fossorial (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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