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the burrowing
verb
To dig a tunnel or hole.
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Without the ground-turning process of the burrowing animals, the soil became solidly packed, impervious to rain.
In another group of amphibians, the burrowing wormlike caecilians, chemicals are carried to the vomeronasal organs via tentacles.
The Parks Department learned of the infestation when inspectors found pencil-sized holes made by the burrowing beetles in the tree's trunks, Mr. Stern said.
It is not well known how fluctuations in soil temperature and moisture affect the burrowing activities of earthworms.
For example, honeybees, and many wasps and ants, along with the burrowing naked mole rats from Eastern Africa include individuals that do not reproduce.
The burrowing frogs of Australia have a rather different lifestyle.
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I push him, squeeze him, into the burrowed hole.
"So the trematode is burrowing into the amphibian," he said.
The larva burrows into the snail's gut.
The lumps were the result of burrowing.
Both sexes excavate the burrow.
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