fossoriality

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

fossorial +‎ -ity

Noun[edit]

fossoriality (uncountable)

  1. The condition of being fossorial
    • 2015 October 22, “Molecular Phylogeny Supports Repeated Adaptation to Burrowing within Small-Eared Shrews Genus of Cryptotis (Eulipotyphla, Soricidae)”, in PLOS ONE‎[1], →DOI:
      Comparisons of forelimb morphologies associated with fossoriality within Cryptotis [9 ] to those among shrews in the African subfamily Myosoricinae showed strongly convergent adaptions of the forelimb in the two groups [33 ].
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