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TUNNELS |
Burrows |
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FOXHOLES |
Soldiers' burrows |
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TOPHOLES |
Soldiers' burrows |
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BORER |
Insect that burrows |
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WARREN |
Network of rabbit burrows |
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BARROWS |
Goes into debt so you can leave burrows for original occupants |
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GOPHER |
A large land tortoise (Testudo Carilina) of the Southern
United States, which makes extensive burrows. |
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JIGGER |
A species of flea (Sarcopsylla, / Pulex, penetrans), which
burrows beneath the skin. See Chigoe. |
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BURROWER |
One who, or that which, burrows; an animal that makes a
hole under ground and lives in it. |
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THUNDERWORM |
A small, footless, burrowing, snakelike lizard
(Rhineura Floridana) allied to Amphisbaena, native of Florida; -- so
called because it leaves its burrows after a thundershower. |
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LITHOPHAGOUS |
Eating or destroying stone; -- applied to various
animals which make burrows in stone, as many bivalve mollusks, certain
sponges, annelids, and sea urchins. See Lithodomus. |
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GRIBBLE |
A small marine isopod crustacean (Limnoria lignorum or L.
terebrans), which burrows into and rapidly destroys submerged timber,
such as the piles of wharves, both in Europe and America. |
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STAGWORM |
The larve of any species of botfly which is parasitic
upon the stag, as /strus, or Hypoderma, actaeon, which burrows beneath
the skin, and Cephalomyia auribarbis, which lives in the nostrils. |
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SQUILLA |
Any one of numerous stomapod crustaceans of the genus
Squilla and allied genera. They make burrows in mud or beneath stones
on the seashore. Ca... |
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WOODCHUCK |
...nax).
It is usually reddish brown, more or less grizzled with gray. It makes
extensive burrows, and is often injurious to growing crops. Called ... |
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ZEMNI |
...less tinged with gray. It constructs extensive
burrows. ... |
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SPIODEA |
... the sides of the body. They
generally live in burrows or tubes. ... |
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AARD-VARK |
...ewhat
resembling a pig, common in some parts of Southern Africa. It burrows
in the ground, and feeds entirely on ants, which it catches with its... |
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SHELDRAKE |
...mbles a
goose in form and habit, but breeds in burrows. ... |
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WORMIL |
Any botfly larva which burrows in or beneath the skin of
domestic and wild animals, thus producing sores. They belong to various
species of Hyp... |
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SQUIRREL |
...real in their habits, but many species
live in burrows. ... |
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VIZ-CACHA |
... grassy plains, and is noted for its extensive
burrows and for heaping up miscellaneous articles at the mouth of its
burrows. Called also biscac... |