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- noun Plural form of
burrow . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
burrow .
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Examples
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Krinak wound through tufts of crygrass and low mounds of sand, the lemkin burrows emerging from the ground all around him.
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Rabbits usually live in burrows or tunnels in the ground, where they prefer to stay during daylight hours.
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I read "Tetrapod burrows from the Triassic of Antarctica," which demonstrates that fossil burrows found at Wahl Glacier in the Beardmore Glacier region of the central Transantarctic Mountains (Lovecraft's "Mountains of Madness") were made by an animal similar to the cynodont Thrinaxodon.
Halloween the Fourth greygirlbeast 2008
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Habits differ according to habitat: rainforest Collared peccaries are diurnal, eat fruit, palm nuts and shrubs, and sleep in burrows, while desert populations are nocturnal, eat mostly cacti, and don’t use burrows.
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Habits differ according to habitat: rainforest Collared peccaries are diurnal, eat fruit, palm nuts and shrubs, and sleep in burrows, while desert populations are nocturnal, eat mostly cacti, and don’t use burrows.
Meet peccary # 4 Darren Naish 2006
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Phrase by vivid phrase burrows into the memory like a fever dream -- from "A sugar cube in rain" to "a blindfolded balloon waiting for the slingshots" -- but the effect is somehow one of emotional reticence.
Daniel J. Kushner: Beyond Ecstatic: The Multimedia Fever Dream of "Letters to Distant Cities" Daniel J. Kushner 2011
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Phrase by vivid phrase burrows into the memory like a fever dream -- from "A sugar cube in rain" to "a blindfolded balloon waiting for the slingshots" -- but the effect is somehow one of emotional reticence.
Daniel J. Kushner: Beyond Ecstatic: The Multimedia Fever Dream of "Letters to Distant Cities" Daniel J. Kushner 2011
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Science News reports that dinosaur fossils have been found in burrows.
Boing Boing 2007
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Science News reports that dinosaur fossils have been found in burrows.
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He spends more than 95 percent of his life, which can last as long as a hundred years, in underground burrows, which is what any sane creature would do when faced with the Mojave Desert.
I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen Amy Wilentz 2006
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