Home › Words › F › fossorializationfossorializationfossorialization means modification to become fossorial.EtymologyFrom fossorial + -ization.nounmodification to become fossoriale.g.“In the current study, we demonstrate that fossorialization can evolve repeatedly even within a single genus and at a relatively shallow time scale.” — 2015 October 22, “Molecular Phylogeny Supports Repeated Adaptation to Burrowing within Small-Eared Shrews Genus of Cryptotis (Eulipotyphla, Soricidae)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).