Crossword clues for burrower
burrower
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Burrower \Bur"row*er\, n. One who, or that which, burrows; an animal that makes a hole under ground and lives in it.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One that burrows 2 An animal that lives in an underground hole that it has made itself
Usage examples of "burrower".
Your people are known among Strangers and Mankind as the furthest-back burrowers, the bottommost burrowers of all.
There were burrowers already at work here, and in amongst the squabbling crowd there were a few bulkier steropodons: clumsy, black-haired, oddly primitive-looking, these creatures were descended from mammals that had inhabited the southern continent since Jurassic times.
There were many, many burrowers here on the tundra this autumn, many more than last year.
The burrowers were locked into intricate ecological cycles involving the abundance of the vegetation and insects they browsed, and the carnivores who preyed on them in turn.
With an instinct more than two hundred million years old, Dig flattened herself against the ground, while burrowers squeaked and scrambled over each other.
They, also, belong to the great group of burrowers, and their coats of mail assume both offensive and defensive characters.
The burrowers remain indoors until late in the evening during the winter, but in summer appear before the sun sets.
The fact that they were excellent burrowers had proven their downfall.
General Raptus watched with uneasy fascination as the device that the mages called the Burrower dug through the first layers of dirt and rock, and he was glad that he had ordered his raiders to keep some of the mages alive.
It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane.
The muttas hatched their eggs on the ground, as their ancestors had always done, which made them vulnerable to opportunistic predators like the burrowers.
Not only were the drab gray sand-slopes nearby aweb with creepers and punctuate with burrowers: the air was full of unexpected wingets.
Tell them raccoons are natural burrowers and have them push them into the ducting.
There were many, many burrowers here on the tundra this autumn, many more than last year.
They did not show themselves but the readings were low enough on the scale to suggest small creatures, burrowers or timid night beasts that would be unlikely to cause problems for any secondary camp.