noun, feminine/madɾiˈɡeɾa/plural: madrigueras
burrow, den, sett, warren; hideout, hiding place; den (for criminals)
“Embravecido, se asoma y como si fuera una jirafa, saca el cuello por la ventana para vociferar: “¡Putas, salid de vuestras madrigueras como conejas![…]”” — Enraged, he leans out the window, sticking out his neck like a giraffe, yelling: "Whores! Come out of your burrows, you little bunny bitches! […] ”
Synonyms: guarida, cubil
Inherited from Late Latin mātrīcāria (“related to the womb”), from Latin mātrīx (“womb”). The semantic development could mirror the one in cunīculus (“underground tunnel; rabbit”) if indeed related to cunnus (“vagina”).