English Explanatory Dictionary

mole-rat

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

mole-rat mole-rats mole rat

Derived words

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

Translations

Arabic: خُلْد Catalan: rata talp Coptic: ⲁⲗⲓⲗ Finnish: myyrikkö Finnish: maamyyrärotta Finnish: juurirotta Finnish: juurimyllikäs Finnish: sokkomyllikäs Finnish: sokkohiiri French: rat-taupe French: rate-taupe German: Mull Greek: τυφλοπόντικας Hebrew: חולד Indonesian: tikus mondok Italian: spalace Italian: ratto talpa Kikuyu: huko Latgalian: kūrmuļs Latvian: kurmis Lithuanian: kurmis Luhya: efuko Meru: mbuko Polish: kretoszczur Portuguese: rato-toupeira Romanian: șobolan cârtiță Romanian: orbeț Russian: слепы́ш Spanish: rata topo Swahili: fuko Tagalog: dagang-lupa
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