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Definition of Burrowing
1. burrow [v] - See also: burrow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Burrowing
Literary usage of Burrowing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Contributions to Medical and Biological Research by William Osler (1919)
"AH Burrowing Owls are comparatively small (less than 11 inches in length), but
this peculiarity ... Burrowing habits seem to be common to all the species. ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"Highland Park, Reservoir Ave., Rochester, NY A NEW Burrowing OWL FROM COLOMBIA.
BY WITHER STONE. IN a collection of Colombian birds recently received by the ..."
3. Irrigation Engineering by Arthur Powell Davis, Herbert Michael Wilson (1919)
"Burrowing Animals.—The maintenance of a canal system is a perpetual warfare
between the manager and a horde of burrowing animals, such as gophers, ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1884)
"A Burrowing SPIDER. IN the somewhat heavy soil of certain fields, where but a
scanty herbage thrives, the cave- making spider (Tarantula arenicola, ..."
5. The Birds of America by John James] [Audubon (1840)
"... is as follows:—"In the Trans-Mississippian territories of the United States,
the Burrowing Owl resides exclusively in the villages of the Marmot or ..."
6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists (1869)
"HABITS OF THE Burrowing OWL OF CALIFORNIA. BY DR. C. 8. CANFIELD.* I WISH to
state a few facts about the Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia Molina) that ..."
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