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FOSSORIAL MAMMAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A burrowing mammal having limbs adapted for digging
Classified under:
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)
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