Word Meanings - FOSSORIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Fitted for digging, adapted for burrowing or digging; as, a fossorial foot; a fossorial animal.

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• ANIMALIZATION
  1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
• ANIMALCULISM
  The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• ANIMALITY
  Animal existence or nature. Locke.
• ANIMALLY
  Physically. G. Eliot.
• ANIMALNESS
  Animality.
• ANIMALCULIST
  1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism.
• ANIMAL
  1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process
• FOSSORIAL
  Fitted for digging, adapted for burrowing or digging; as, a fossorial foot; a fossorial animal.
• ADAPTNESS
  Adaptedness.
• ANIMALCULE
  An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria. Note: Many of the so-called animalcules have been shown to be plants, having locomotive powers something like those of animals. Among these are Volvox, the Desmidiacæ, and the
• DIGGERS
  A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from their practice of digging roots for food.
• ANIMALCULAR; ANIMALCULINE
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules. "Animalcular life." Tyndall.
• BURROW
  1. To excavate a hole to lodge in, as in the earth; to lodge in a hole excavated in the earth, as conies or rabbits. 2. To lodge, or take refuge, in any deep or concealed place; to hide. Sir, this vermin of court reporters, when they are forced
• DIGGER
  One who, or that which, digs. Digger wasp , any one of the fossorial Hymenoptera.
• ADAPTIVE
  Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting. Coleridge. -- A*dapt"ive*ly, adv.
• ADAPT
  Fitted; suited. Swift.
• ADAPTATION
  1. The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. "Adaptation of the means to the end." Erskine. 2. The result of adapting; an adapted form.
• ADAPTORIAL
  Adaptive.
• ADAPTEDNESS
  The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• OUTFITTER
  One who furnishes outfits for a voyage, a journey, or a business.
• BEFITTINGLY
  In a befitting manner; suitably.
• BELL ANIMALCULE
  An infusorian of the family Vorticellidæ, common in fresh-water ponds.
• COADAPTED
  Adapted one to another; as, coadapted pulp and tooth. R. Owen.