| 释义 |
fossorial, a. and n. Chiefly Zool.|fɒˈsɔərɪəl|
[f. L. fossōri-us, f. fossor, agent-n. of fodĕre to dig + -al1.]
A. adj.
1. Having a faculty of digging, able to burrow, burrowing, fodient. Cf. prec.
fossorial Hymenoptera, a family of insects called Fossores.
1836–9Todd Cycl. Anat. II. 46/2 The recently discovered American fossorial animal, the Chlamyphorus. 1837W. E. Shuckard (title) Essay on the indigenous fossorial Hymenoptera. 1845Zoologist III. 847 Some species of Fossorial Hymenoptera. 1877Coues Fur Anim. ix. 280 Other animals are as decidedly fossorial as the Badger. 1880Notes from Leyden Museum II. 225 (title) On two new exotic species of fossorial Hymenoptera. 1935Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat. Maroc XV. 1 (title) On some fossorial Hymenoptera from the Soudan.
2. Of or pertaining to fodient animals, adapted for or used in burrowing.
1845Todd & Bowman Phys. Anat. I. 148 Among the Edentata those tribes possess a clavicle whose habits are fossorial. 1854Owen in Circ. Sc. (c 1865) II. 107/1 The fossorial (digging and scratching) character of the..mechanism of the limbs. 1865Wood Homes without H. 22 The fossorial limbs of the badger.
B. n. A fossorial animal.
1855in Ogilvie Suppl., Fossorials. |