Fossorialとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin fossōrius (“adapted for digging or delving”), from fodiō (“dig”).

発音

• 韻: -ɔːɹiəl

形容詞

fossorial (comparative more fossorial, superlative most fossorial)

1. (zoology) Of, pertaining to, or adapted for digging or burrowing.
   • 2006, Kenneth D. Rose, The Beginning of the Age of Mammals, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN:

     The most specialized fossorial mammals (moles, marsupial mole) are subterranean, seeking food and shelter underground and rarely coming to the surface.

派生語

関連する語

• fossorialism
• fossorious
• semifossorial

参考

• ambulatorial
• cursorial
• gressorial
• natatorial
• raptorial
• saltatorial
• scansorial

名詞

fossorial (plural fossorials)

1. (zoology) Any digging animal (such as a mole)

アナグラム

• isosafrol