fossoriality

English

Etymology

From fossorial +‎ -ity.

Noun

fossoriality (uncountable)

1. The condition of being fossorial
   • 2015 October 22, “Molecular Phylogeny Supports Repeated Adaptation to Burrowing within Small-Eared Shrews Genus of Cryptotis (Eulipotyphla, Soricidae)”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Comparisons of forelimb morphologies associated with fossoriality within Cryptotis [9 ] to those among shrews in the African subfamily Myosoricinae showed strongly convergent adaptions of the forelimb in the two groups [33 ].