burrow
noun
a hole or tunnel in the ground made by a rabbit, fox, or similar animal to live or hide in.
burrows
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pluralof burrow.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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present tense formof burrow (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
burrownouna hole or tunnel in the ground made by a rabbit, fox, or similar animal to live or hide in.
Example Sentences
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During breeding season—roughly late April through most of August—they nest in underground burrows on offshore islands where mammalian predators such as mink, rats and foxes can’t get at them or their young.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Bold Coast Charter’s trips allow participants to land on an island and spend a couple of hours in blinds to see and photograph at close range puffins gathered on rocks above their nesting burrows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
But wildlife experts are very familiar with the little penguins' burrows at Phillip Island and St Kilda, he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
It is found only in a narrow strip of sand dunes in southern Africa, where it burrows into the sand.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
They spent the rest of the day exploring the burrows, the crevices, the hidden lairs of the secret valley.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
