It is a burrowing animal, and therefore requires great power of scratching and tearing the ground.
The fore feet have thick, short toes, instead of long ones, such as their modern representatives have; and from this we may infer that they were not in the habit of burrowing or of seeking their food underground.
Soon afterward came the Burrowing Owl, and the Coyote, from the vicinity of Navajo Mountains in the north, but they were not very numerous.
It is a burrowing animal, with short, thick legs, and long claws on the fore feet.
Was it then only that he was ignorant of the awful fact that lay burrowing in her heart, or was he not ignorant also of the nature of that heart in which such a fact must so burrow?
His burrowing habits do not seem to be generally known, the only mention of which I have chanced to observe merely alluding to the fact that the "caterpillar has the unusual power of boring very smooth cylindrical holes in solid pine wood.
This animal spends most of its time burrowing in the sand in search of insects and their larvae, but occasionally makes its appearance on the surface.
In correlation with its burrowing habits, some of the vertebrae of the neck and of the loins are respectively welded together.
This is a small burrowing animal, of a pale golden-yellow colour, with long silky hair, a horny shield on the nose, and a stumpy leathery tail.
On the other hand, the considerably smaller Nototherium, characterized by its sharp and broad skull and smaller incisors, seems to have been much more wombat-like, and may perhaps have possessed similar burrowing habits.
But seeds often get covered by earth thrown up by burrowing quadrupeds or scratching birds, by the castings of earth-worms, by heaps of excrement, the decaying branches of trees, etc.
A radicle may be compared with a burrowing animal such as a mole, which wishes to penetrate perpendicularly down into the ground.
This power must often be of great service to the plant, when the primary radicle has been destroyed by the larvae of insects, burrowing animals, or any other accident.
The parent-form must have been a burrowing animal, a habit not common, as far as I can discover, to any other species in the large genus Lepus.
The eyes of moles and of some burrowingrodents are rudimentary in size, and in some cases are quite covered by skin and fur.
When attacked it seeks to escape either by rolling itself into a ball, its erect spines proving a formidable barrier to its capture, or by burrowing into the sand, which its powerful limbs enable it to do with great celerity.
Its legs are short and strong, and form, with its broad feet and large solid nails, powerful burrowing organs.
The echidnas are exceedingly restless in confinement, and constantly endeavour by burrowing to effect their escape.
The boy was an ardent fossicker, and loved to be burrowing amongst old tailings, or groping in the sludge of an auriferous creek after little patches.
Of the species burrowingin mud the most interesting is the long-jawed goby, Gillichthys mirabilis.
He closed up one channel, but he didn't figure on your burrowing another.
It was a destroying force, a thing burrowing at the springs of life, a thing which made its way through devious paths to vital sources.
This beautiful little animal is abundant over all the stony plains throughout the country, burrowing deeply, and when unearthed bounding away with most surprising agility after the manner of the kangaroo-rat.
Jerdon calls this a field rat in his popular name for it, but I think that the term should be restricted to the Nesokia or true field and earth-burrowing rats.
It is a difficult matter to stop the burrowing of rats; the best plan is to fill the holes with Portland cement mixed with bits of bottle glass broken in small pieces.
The hind feet, contrary to what is almost invariably the case in burrowing mammals, are larger than the fore feet.
The Marmots are characterised by very long, powerful incisors, strong claws, indicatingburrowing habits, and by a tail of medium length, somewhat thickly garnished with hair.
Not so the wild Rabbit, for, by its rapid multiplication, its burrowing habits, and its herbivorous tastes, it is to the agriculturist a veritable scourge.
Their habits and manner of feeding differ much in the various families—some living on vegetables, others on animal substances; some burrowing in holes, others living on trees.
Spite fastened a line upon his head, dropped down by the side of his face, and burrowinginto the grass, cleared a path directly under the jaws.
We had been burrowing under the auditorium, and presently found ourselves in a large cellar where a Chinese was cooking on a brazier an unspeakable melange of dog, fish, and rat for the actors' supper, with not a scrap of ventilation anywhere!
One was here caught, and on examination, found to be the species denominated coquimbo, or burrowing owl, (strix cunicularia.
A considerable number of the coquimbo, {64} or burrowing owl, occurred in a prairie dog village of limited extent.
In passing through a village of prairie dogs, of which we saw great numbers, Mr. Peale killed a burrowing owl.
One of our neighbors milked his cows out in a field where the burrowing owls had a nest, and he told me that his collie had nightly battles with the birds.
The son of the ranchman who owned the dairy--the one who invited me down to see the play between his dog Romulus and the burrowing owl--said that when herding cows by the sycamore he once caught sight of a coyote wolf.
However, he was resolved to have a companion of some sort, so when he came to a place where a crab had been burrowing he set to work and dug it out of the ground and took it along with him, tied up in his cloth.
The flowers are visited by ants, bees, and wasps, and these may be seen burrowing into the flowers in search of honey.
Pupils should make a list of all burrowing animals and look for examples.
The earthworm's shape and movements are suited to its habits of burrowing through the soil.
Its habits of swallowing the soil fit it for burrowing and for obtaining its food at the same time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "burrowing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
