burrows
Underground animal homes
Burrows are tunnels or holes dug in the ground by animals for shelter: The rabbit disappeared into its burrow.
Creatures burrow to create homes, escape predators, or find food.
Extended uses describe digging into anything: She burrowed under the covers, He burrowed through the archives.
To burrow into something is to nestle or press closely: The child burrowed into her mother's side.
Interconnected underground tunnels
- settBadger's underground home
- denPrivate room or lair
- earthSoil or electrical grounding
- lairAnimal's hidden dwelling
lodge · nest · drey · foxhole · molehill · groundhog · badger · rabbit
Below ground or countercultural
- beneathIn a lower position
- depthsLowest or innermost regions
- tunnelEnclosed underground route
- subsoilEarth layer below surface
darkness · earthen · cavity · hollow · void · subsurface · buried · bedrock
Place of safety
- hideawaySecluded place of refuge
- sanctuaryProtected sacred space
- retreatSanctuary or withdrawal
- havenShelter from danger
bolthole · hideout · protection · cover · safehouse · seclusion · snug · nook
warren
Interconnected underground tunnels
lair · lodge · nest · drey · foxhole · molehill · groundhog · badger · rabbit · mole
underground
Below ground or countercultural
subsoil · darkness · earthen · cavity · hollow · void · subsurface · buried · bedrock
refuge
Place of safety
haven · bolthole · hideout · protection · cover · safehouse · seclusion · snug · nook · hiding-place
excavation
Act of unearthing
dirt · claws · paws · snout · mound · backfill · passageway · shaft · gallery · chamber
nestle
Settle into sheltered comfort
hunker · embed · settle · cocoon · curl-up · immerse · ensconce · huddle
- Burrowersaardvark, aardvarks, badger, badgers, gopher
- animal trackingtracks, footprints, hoofprints, spoor, droppings
- sedimentary featurescross-bedding, lamination, bedding, strata, layers
- trace fossilstrace fossils, trackway, trackways, footprint, footprints
- agricultural rabbitsbreeding, warrens, hutches, rabbit pelts
- forest ecosystemtrees, shrubs, bark, fungi, mushrooms
- burrowing animalAnimal that digs tunnels
- Joe Burrow
- burrow nestingBreeding in excavated holes
- burrowing owlSubterranean-dwelling small raptor
- burrowing mammalsAnimals that excavate underground