fossorial mammal

English Thesaurus

1. a burrowing mammal having limbs adapted for digging (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	mammal, mammalian,
definition	:	any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	naked mole rat,
definition	:	fetal-looking colonial rodent of East Africa; neither mole nor rat; they feed on tubers and have a social structure similar to that of honeybees and termites (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	damaraland mole rat,
definition	:	colonial mole rat of western Africa; similar to naked mole rat (noun.animal)