FOSSORIAL MAMMAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fossorial mammal mean? 

• FOSSORIAL MAMMAL (noun)
  The noun FOSSORIAL MAMMAL has 1 sense:

1. a burrowing mammal having limbs adapted for digging

  Familiarity information: FOSSORIAL MAMMAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOSSORIAL MAMMAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A burrowing mammal having limbs adapted for digging

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("fossorial mammal" is a kind of...):

mammal; mammalian (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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fossorial mammal"):

naked mole rat (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)

Damaraland mole rat (colonial mole rat of western Africa; similar to naked mole rat)