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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biocon commented on the word fodient
According to Oxford English Dictionary, fodient means (1) digging, burrowing; (2) a burrowing animal.
June 22, 2011