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fodient, a. and n.|ˈfəʊdɪənt|
[ad. L. fodient-em, pr. pple. of fodĕre to dig.]
A. adj. Digging; (of certain animals) burrowing.
1676Coles, Fodient, digging. 1721in Bailey. 1881Nature XXIV. 209 Such are its fodient powers..that [etc.].
B. n. A burrowing animal.
1879E. W. White in Proc. Zool. Soc. (1880) 9 As a fodient..it perhaps excels all other burrowing animals. 1888Riverside Nat. Hist. V. 61 As a family the Fodients are entitled Orycteropodidæ. |