mole-rat

See also: mole rat

English

Alternative forms

• mole rat

Noun

mole-rat (plural mole-rats)

1. Any of the family Bathyergidae of burrowing rodents.
2. In the family Spalacidae:
   1. Any of the genus Tachyoryctes of rodents.
   2. A blind mole-rat, also called fossorial mole-rats or subterranean mole-rats (subfamily Spalacinae).
   3. A zokor (only sometimes called mole-rats)
3. In the family Muridae:
   1. short-tailed mole-rat (Nesokia indica).
   2. Indian mole-rat (Bandicota bengalensis).
4. A naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber)

Derived terms

• Ankole African mole-rat
• blind mole-rat
• Damaraland mole-rat
• desert mole rat
• naked mole rat
• sandy blind mole-rat

Translations

rodent

• Arabic: خُلْد m (ḵuld)
• Coptic: ⲁⲗⲓⲗ m (alil)
• Finnish: myyrikkö, maamyyrärotta (Bathyergidae); juurirotta, juurimyllikäs, sokkomyllikäs, sokkohiiri (Spalacidae)
• French: rat-taupe (fr) m, rate-taupe f
• German: Mull (de) m
• Greek: τυφλοπόντικας (el) m (tyflopóntikas)
• Hebrew: חולד (he) (choléd)
• Indonesian: tikus mondok
• Italian: spalace m, ratto talpa m
• Kikuyu: huko class 9/10
• Latgalian: kūrmuļs m
• Latvian: kurmis (lv) m
• Lithuanian: kurmis (lt)
• Luhya: efuko
• Meru: mbuko
• Portuguese: rato-toupeira m
• Romanian: șobolan cârtiță m, orbeț (ro) m
• Russian: слепы́ш (ru) m (slepýš)
• Swahili: fuko (sw)
• Tagalog: dagang-lupa

References

• mole-rat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “mole-rat”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• rat-mole, Lamorte, rat mole, LaMorte