mole rat

mole rat
noun
1. African rodent resembling a mole in habits and appearance
• Hypernyms: ↑rodent, ↑gnawer
• Member Holonyms: ↑Bathyergus, ↑genus Bathyergus
2. furry short-limbed tailless rodent resembling a true mole in habits and appearance; of eastern Europe and Middle East
• Hypernyms: ↑rodent, ↑gnawer
• Member Holonyms: ↑Spalax, ↑genus Spalax
3. burrowing scaly-tailed rat of India and Ceylon
• Syn: ↑bandicoot rat
• Hypernyms: ↑rat
• Member Holonyms: ↑Nesokia, ↑genus Nesokia

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noun
: any of various rodents resembling true moles in habit or appearance: as
a. : sokhor
b. : a member of the family Spalacidae of the eastern Mediterranean region
c. : a member of the family Bathyergidae and especially of the African genus Bathyergus
d. : a member of the East Indian murid genus Nesokia

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/mohl"rat'/, n.
1. any of several eastern European burrowing rodents, esp. those of the genus Spalax, having no tail, short limbs, and small eyes with permanently closed lids.
2. bandicoot (def. 2).
Also, mole-rat, molerat.
[1775-85]

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mole rat noun
A name for several burrowing rodents (Spalax, Cryptomys, Bathyergus, etc)
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Main Entry: ↑mole

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mole rat,
any one of various Old World molelike rodents, which live underground and burrow extensively.

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n. a herbivorous, short-legged, ratlike rodent that typically lives permanently underground, with long incisors that protrude from the mouth and are used in digging. ● Family Bathyergidae (African mole rats): several genera; also two subfamilies and three genera in the family Muridae (Eurasian blind mole rats and Asiatic mole rats)

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