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Burrow vs Inquiline - What's the difference?

burrow | inquiline |

As nouns the difference between burrow and inquiline

is that burrow is a tunnel or hole, often as dug by a small creature while inquiline is (biology) an animal that lives commensally in the nest, burrow, gall, or dwelling place of an animal of another species.

As a verb burrow

is to dig a tunnel or hole.

burrow

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A tunnel or hole, often as dug by a small creature.
  • * 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
    • But very soon he grew to like it, for the Boy used to talk to him, and made nice tunnels' for him under the bedclothes that he said were like the ' burrows the real rabbits lived in.
  • (mining) A heap or heaps of rubbish or refuse.
  • A mound.
  • An incorporated town.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To dig a tunnel or hole.

    • inquiline

    English

    (wikipedia inquiline)

    Noun

    (inquilines)
  • (biology) An animal that lives commensally in the nest, burrow, gall, or dwelling place of an animal of another species.
  • * 2003 , Gary J. Blomquist & Ralph W. Howard, "Pheromone biosynthesis in social insects" in'' Gary J. Blomquist, Richard G. Vogt (eds.) ''Insect Pheromone Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , page 331
    • The other studyinvolved the larvae of the caterpillar Maculinea rebeli'', an inquiline of ''Myrmica schenki .
  • * 2003 , Mary Jane West-Eberhard, Developmental Plasticity and Evolution
    • Queens of socially parasitic inquiline ants reproduce by laying eggs in the colonies of other species.
  • * 2010 , P. J. Gullan, P. S. Cranston, The Insects: An Outline of Entomology , 4th ed., page 332
    • A reproductive female inquiline gains access to a host nest and usually kills the resident queen.
  • (biology) An organism that lives within a reservoir of water collected in the hollow of a plant stem or leaf.
  • * 1998', Stephen B. Heard, "Capture rates of invertebrate prey by the pitcher plant, ''Sarracenia purpurea'' L.", ''The American Midland Naturalist'' ' 139 (1): 79-89.
    • Captured prey also constitute the resource base for a community of inquiline' bacteria, protozoa, and invertebrates that inhabit the water-filled pitchers. For at least two of these '''inquilines (the pitcher-plant mosquito ''Wyeomyia smithii'' Coquillet and the pitcher-plant midge ''Metriocnemus knabi Coquillet) the availability of captured prey limits individual growth, and ultimately population growth
  • * 2001 , J. K. Cronk, M. Siobhan Fennessy, Wetland Plants: Biology and Ecology , page 145
    • The insect and other animal inhabitants of the pitchers, known collectively as the inquilines , may benefit the plants by breaking down prey and making nutrients available for plant absorption.

    Derived terms

    * inquilinism * inquinility * inquilinous