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What is another word for fossorial?

Pronunciation: [fəsˈɔːɹɪəl] (IPA)

Fossorial is an adjective that describes animals or organisms that live or adapt to living underground. Some synonyms to use instead of fossorial could be subterranean, burrowing, or underground. Other alternative synonyms to fossorial include troglodytic, tunneling, and digging. All these synonyms can be used to describe creatures like worms, ants, and rabbits, which spend most of their lives moving through dirt, sand, or other substrates. Synonyms can help language users to diversify their writing or speech and avoid repetition, which can be monotonous. Therefore, it's helpful to have a good range of synonyms to choose from when writing about fossorial organisms.
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What are the hypernyms for Fossorial?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for fossorial?

The word fossorial is used to refer to animals that are adapted for digging and burrowing. Antonyms for this term would be words that describe animals not adapted for digging or burrowing. Examples might include arboreal, aquatic, aerial, terrestrial, or volant. These words refer to animals that live primarily in trees, water, air, on land, or that are capable of flight, respectively. While fossorial animals might include moles, prairie dogs, or armadillos, arboreal animals might include monkeys, sloths, or birds, for example. By contrast, aquatic animals might include fish, dolphins, or otters, while volant animals might include bats, flies, or eagles.

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Usage examples for Fossorial

This method is especially recommended in the case of the fossorial wasps, the legs of which, if mounted in an ordinary spreading board, can not be properly arranged.
"Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects"
C. V. Riley
Conspicuous among well-defended insects are the dark steely or iridescent greenish blue fossorial wasps or sand-wasps, Sphex and the allied genera.
"Darwin and Modern Science"
A.C. Seward and Others
He goes on to add: "The anterior limbs are decidedly fossorial, and the hinder suited for walking in a sub-plantigrade manner; both wholly unfitted for rapatory or scansorial purposes."
"Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon"
Robert A. Sterndale

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