sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed
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Fossorial mammal
a burrowing mammal having limbs adapted for digging
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primitive reptile having no opening in the temporal region of the skull; all extinct except turtles
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Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Zoology.chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being…
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Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Zoology.radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp a…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Zoology.reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye
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nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: burrowing, mammal, limbs, adapted, digging.a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to Australia
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: burrowing, mammal, limbs, adapted, digging.burrowing chiefly nocturnal mammal with body covered with strong horny plates
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: burrowing, mammal, limbs, adapted, digging.sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws; widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: burrowing, mammal, limbs, adapted, digging.A spade for digging turf.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: burrowing, mammal, limbs, adapted, digging.large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales, dolphins, porpoises, narwhals
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: burrowing, mammal, limbs, adapted, digging.large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales, dolphins, porpoises, narwhals
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: burrowing, mammal, limbs, adapted, digging.One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: burrowing, mammal, limbs, adapted, digging.A peculiar East Indian mammal (Galleopithecus volans), having along the sides, connecting the fore and hind limbs, a parachutelike mem…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: burrowing, mammal, limbs, adapted, digging.small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: burrowing, mammal, limbs, adapted, digging.small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: burrowing, mammal, limbs, adapted, digging.Adapted to running or walking, and not to prehension; as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. See Illust. of Aves.
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