Definitions
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- adjective That does not
burrow .
Etymologies
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non- + burrowing
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Examples
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At present they were traveling through high desert, the sleds keeping low enough to kick sand and gravel into the air, unsettling nonburrowing fauna and plants.
The False Mirror Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992
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At present they were traveling through high desert, the sleds keeping low enough to kick sand and gravel into the air, unsettling nonburrowing fauna and plants.
The False Mirror Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992
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The _Sarcoptes_ have less vitality than the nonburrowing acari, as they die in an hour when kept apart from the skin in dry air at a heat of 145° F.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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