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prettygoodwordfossorial (fo-SOHR-ee-uhl, fo-SAWR-ee-uhl) - adj., of, pertaining to, or adapted for digging or burrowing underground; (of an animal) one that digs or burrows underground.
Often specifically used of the limbs or skeletons of borrowing animals, such as armadillos, moles, et cet. Contrast with arboreal, adapted to living in trees, and other environmental adjectives. Adapted in the 1830s from Latin fossÅrius, adapted for digging or delving, from fossor, digger, from fodere, to dig. And, yes, a fossil is something dug up.
---L.
Often specifically used of the limbs or skeletons of borrowing animals, such as armadillos, moles, et cet. Contrast with arboreal, adapted to living in trees, and other environmental adjectives. Adapted in the 1830s from Latin fossÅrius, adapted for digging or delving, from fossor, digger, from fodere, to dig. And, yes, a fossil is something dug up.
---L.
