fossorial mammal

/fɑˌsɔriəl ˌmæməl/

Definitions of fossorial mammal

1. noun

   a burrowing mammal having limbs adapted for digging
   types:

   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

   queen, queen mole rat

   an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males

   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