burrow
noun
a hole or tunnel in the ground made by a rabbit, fox, or similar animal to live or hide in.
burrower
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a word derived from
burrow.
Example Sentences
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Its small, flat, triangular cerebellum, for instance, indicates it was likely an adept burrower, but other features imply that it didn’t spend its entire life underground, the researchers report today in Science Advances.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 26, 2023
“I'm more of a much burrower and just push narrowly, straight ahead.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2015
It is the only burrower of the family.
From Harper's Young People, January 6, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
It is a burrower, and in the teeth it resembles the rodent animals; hence its name, from φασκωλον, a pouch, and μὑς, a mouse.
From Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. by Adam White
That deadly clutch tore up some grass-roots and some fresh earth, but just failed to reach the diligent burrower.
From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
