fossorial mammal

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• fossorial mammal — noun a burrowing mammal having limbs adapted for digging • Hypernyms: ↑mammal, ↑mammalian • Hyponyms: ↑naked mole rat, ↑Damaraland mole rat …   Useful english dictionary

• fossorial — adjective Of, pertaining to, or adapted for digging or burrowing. The mole is a fossorial mammal. See Also: fossorious …   Wiktionary

• mammal — mammallike, adj. /mam euhl/, n. any vertebrate of the class Mammalia, having the body more or less covered with hair, nourishing the young with milk from the mammary glands, and, with the exception of the egg laying monotremes, giving birth to… …   Universalium

• Fossorial Giant Rat — Taxobox name = Fossorial Giant Rat status = VU | status system = IUCN2.3 regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia ordo = Rodentia familia = Cricetidae genus = Kunsia species = K. fronto binomial = Kunsia fronto binomial authority =… …   Wikipedia

• Horned gopher — Temporal range: Late Miocene–Pleistocene …   Wikipedia

• mammalian — I noun any warm blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk • Syn: ↑mammal • Members of this Topic: ↑digitigrade, ↑plantigrade,… …   Useful english dictionary

• Damaraland mole rat — noun colonial mole rat of western Africa; similar to naked mole rat • Hypernyms: ↑fossorial mammal …   Useful english dictionary

• naked mole rat — noun fetal looking colonial rodent of East Africa; neither mole nor rat; they feed on tubers and have a social structure similar to that of honeybees and termites • Hypernyms: ↑fossorial mammal • Hyponyms: ↑queen, ↑queen mole rat • Member… …   Useful english dictionary

• snake — snakelike, adj. /snayk/, n., v., snaked, snaking. n. 1. any of numerous limbless, scaly, elongate reptiles of the suborder Serpentes, comprising venomous and nonvenomous species inhabiting tropical and temperate areas. 2. a treacherous person; an …   Universalium

• Fruitafossor — Taxobox name = Fruitafossor fossil range = Late Jurassic image width = 250px regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia subclassis = incertae sedis familia = Fruitafossoridae familia authority = Luo and Wible, 2005 genus =… …   Wikipedia

• Blesmol — Taxobox name = Blesmols fossil range = Early Miocene Recent image width = 200px image caption = Naked Mole Rat regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia ordo = Rodentia subordo = Hystricomorpha infraordo = Hystricognathi parvordo =… …   Wikipedia