burrowing

English

Verb

burrowing

1. present participle and gerund of burrow

Noun

burrowing (plural burrowings)

1. The act or result of making a burrow.
   • 1825, Thomas Thomson, Richard Phillips, Edward William Brayley, Annals of Philosophy:

     These perforations may be readily distinguished from those more oblique and lateral burrowings which are often found in secondary fossils […]

Derived terms

• burrowing junction
• nonburrowing
• semiburrowing
• terminal burrowing