noun
Meaning 1
Any of the family Bathyergidae of burrowing rodents.
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Standard Lemma guide
mole-rat
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noun
Meaning 2
In the family Spalacidae:
Any of the genus Tachyoryctes of rodents.
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noun
Meaning 3
In the family Spalacidae:
A blind mole-rat, also called fossorial mole-rats or subterranean mole-rats (subfamily Spalacinae).
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noun
Meaning 4
In the family Spalacidae:
A zokor (only sometimes called mole-rats)
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noun
Meaning 5
In the family Muridae:
short-tailed mole-rat (Nesokia indica).
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noun
Meaning 6
In the family Muridae:
Indian mole-rat (Bandicota bengalensis).
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noun
Meaning 7
A naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber)
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Across languages
Translations
31 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: خُلْد (ḵuld) — rodent
- Catalan: rata talp — rodent
- Coptic: ⲁⲗⲓⲗ (alil) — rodent
- Finnish: myyrikkö — rodent
- Finnish: maamyyrärotta — rodent
- Finnish: juurirotta — rodent
- Finnish: juurimyllikäs — rodent
- Finnish: sokkomyllikäs — rodent
- Finnish: sokkohiiri — rodent
- French: rat-taupe — rodent
- French: rate-taupe — rodent
- German: Mull — rodent
- Greek: τυφλοπόντικας (tyflopóntikas) — rodent
- Hebrew: חולד (choléd) — rodent
- Indonesian: tikus mondok — rodent
- Italian: spalace — rodent
- Italian: ratto talpa — rodent
- Kikuyu: huko — rodent
- Latgalian: kūrmuļs — rodent
- Latvian: kurmis — rodent
- Lithuanian: kurmis — rodent
- Luhya: efuko — rodent
- Meru: mbuko — rodent
- Polish: kretoszczur — rodent
- Portuguese: rato-toupeira — rodent
- Romanian: șobolan cârtiță — rodent
- Romanian: orbeț — rodent
- Russian: слепы́ш (slepýš) — rodent
- Spanish: rata topo — rodent
- Swahili: fuko — rodent
- Tagalog: dagang-lupa — rodent