fossorial mammal

Noun
  1. A burrowing mammal having limbs adapted for digging (synset 102156461)
    is a type of: mammal, mammalian - any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk
    subtypes:
    • naked mole rat - fetal-looking colonial rodent of East Africa; neither mole nor rat; they feed on tubers and have a social structure similar to that of honeybees and termites
    • damaraland mole rat - colonial mole rat of western Africa; similar to naked mole rat

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