Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Digging; throwing up with a spade.
  • In zoology: Digging; fossorial.
  • Of or pertaining to the Fodientia: as, a fodient edentate.
  • noun One of the Fodientia.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) One of the Fodientia.
  • adjective Fitted for, or pertaining to, digging.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun zoology One of the Fodientia.

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  • According to Oxford English Dictionary, fodient means (1) digging, burrowing; (2) a burrowing animal.

    June 22, 2011