(n.) A shelter; esp. a hole in the ground made by certain animals, as rabbits, for shelter and habitation.
(n.) A heap or heaps of rubbish or refuse.
(n.) A mound. See 3d Barrow, and Camp, n., 5.
(v. i.) To excavate a hole to lodge in, as in the earth; to lodge in a hole excavated in the earth, as conies or rabbits.
(v. i.) To lodge, or take refuge, in any deep or concealed place; to hide.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, a Defra report in 2005 concluded that gassing "cannot be reliably expected to kill all the animals in a complex burrow system".
(2) Because ammocoetes are burrowing filter feeders, this startle behavior results in rapid withdrawal of the head into the burrow.
(3) Building techniques are minutely reported; burrow construction simplifies defence and allows re-use by succeeding generations.
(4) Burrows had resigned as governor of Bank of Ireland, leaving the lender in dire straits, with big losses and mounting debt threatening its very survival.
(5) C.subimmaculatus was closely associated with a particular substrate and the presence of burrowing crabs.
(6) The latest comes from Cambridge University, where Malcolm Burrows and Gregory Sutton have found that some insects have "gears" – in principle, much like those in cars.
(7) What it says is that their moral code is lacking any kind of compass we can endorse,” said Sharan Burrow, the Ituc general secretary.
(8) A broadening and an anterior elongation of the head-foot produced a wedge to facilitate burrowing.
(9) Chronic exposure of nestlings to the hypercapnia and hypoxia within burrows seems to significantly alter their ventilatory response to these respiratory stimuli.
(10) As the silt cleared, we found ourselves on a flat plain of yellow-tinged mud, inscribed with pits, burrows and tracks by species that eke out their existence on the detritus that settles from above.
(11) Mycobacterium leprae is found in armadillo burrows in Louisiana, U.S.A., and ocular abrasions may be the portal of entry for these organisms in wild armadillos.
(12) The burrows of R. opimus were the main shelters and breeding places of the sandflies, but infection was not transmitted equally in all burrows.It was known that the distribution of sandflies within the burrows was influenced by the humidity in the different parts of the burrow and a survey showed that the highest rate of infection of gerbils occurred in the burrows in those areas with the highest subsoil moisture content.Studies of the prevalence of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis among people in the settlements of the Murghab oasis showed that the years with the highest infection rate were also years with slightly higher rainfall and lower air temperatures in this area.
(13) I found myself skirting the wood’s perimeter, a no-go zone of the past for us, and came next to a gravel-pocked face mined by rabbits with one of the burrows crowned with the skull of an ancestor.
(14) C. californiensis, when placed in simulated burrow conditions, regulates the PO2 very loosely in its immediate microhabitat, using its pleopods.
(15) The results of our physiological analysis in the burrowing owl (Speotyto cunicularia) also reveal a tilted horopter in this terrestrial avian species.
(16) Chris Burrows, chairman of the Greater Manchester branch of the Police Federation, said: "We are already suffering massive cuts in the police budget.
(17) It is expedient to consider the relations revealed between the burrow biocenosis components in investigation of plague enzootic aspects and development of new biological insecticides for control of the infection carriers.
(18) The mole rat (Spalax ehrenbergi) burrows throughout its life in subterranean tunnels.
(19) Burrow's shortness inevitably made him the butt of a thousand jokes.
(20) Like many of the millions who burrowed underground to extract diamonds, gold and other minerals, Gura came a long way from home in search of a working wage.
Burry
Definition:
(a.) Abounding in burs, or containing burs; resembling burs; as, burry wool.
Example Sentences:
(1) Backstory Roland Burris, a veteran Chicago politician, became the first African-American to win an Illinois state-wide election in 1978 and became attorney-general from 1991 to 1995.
(2) Two types of reconstruction were used: 24 open cancellous grafts by the Burri-Papineau method and 7 closed corticocancellous grafts.
(3) It’s unconscionable that a person can be shot that many times in the back,” Burris said.
(4) The anastomoses were burried in uninfected surrounding muscles.
(5) Obama said today that he agreed with senior Democratic leaders in the US Senate, who have said neither Burris nor anyone else appointed by Blagojevich will be allowed to take the Senate seat when Congress convenes on 6 January.
(6) John Burris, a lawyer representing the family, described it as a "compromise verdict".
(7) Therefore we conclude, that functional therapy after surgical treatment recommeneded by Burri et al.
(8) In the recently filed affidavit, however, Burris acknowledged that he spoke with the others, including three times with Blagojevich's brother, who was soliciting fundraising help, as well as Ed Smith, a labour ally of the former governor.
(9) Burris tried to distance himself from the scandal: "I have no relationship with the situation."
(10) Burris said he had not realised it was so much: "I will have to check the records."
(11) Llangennith is at the western end of the Gower Peninsula and stretches for more than three miles, with gorgeous views of the island of Burry Holms.
(12) US Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada and his top deputy, Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, had made Burris' full and complete testimony at the impeachment hearing one of the conditions for swearing him in as a federal lawmaker.
(13) Burris said Monday that Woods was not “aggressively fighting” the officers, who should have backed away.
(14) Although Blagojevich's appointment is potentially poisonous, Burris may have decided the gamble is worth it, given he is 71 and unlikely to get another chance of high office.
(15) An incident of inflammatory complications following the open bone fractures is very high (20% according to Burrie).
(16) Adante Pointer, a black lawyer with the Oakland firm of John Burris, which handles a lot of local police-killing lawsuits, represented Refugio and Elvira Nieto, the plaintiffs.
(17) But spokesman for the top Senate leaders said they hadn't yet seen Burris' new affidavit and were withholding judgment.
(18) Consecutive transmission electron microscopic investigation of serial sections demonstrated that the holes corresponded to slender tissue pillars (Burri and Tarek, 1990).
(19) Blagojevich's defiant selection of Burris, three weeks after the then-governor's arrest on federal corruption charges, set off a national political furore.
(20) Staining for proving the presence of nucleic acids does not eliminate the possibility of these formations being separate micro-organisms which cannot be stained by current staining methods but can be represented by the contrast method according to Burri, or by silvering according to Klein.