burrow

Even the nocturnal creatures crawled out from their burrows, into daylight, to join the celebration.

Every year, male tarantulas strike out from their burrows in search of a lover.

Active at night, it climbs trees in search of food and takes shelter during the day in burrows or among tree branches.

The building stretches far above our heads, its 400 million pounds suspended by 14 fan-shaped steel columns that pierce the lobby’s marble floor and burrow into Manhattan’s bedrock.

Some decapods, like lobsters and shrimp, have a thick cylindrical abdomen with a muscular tail for snapping backwards at high speed and burrowing on the seabed.