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Definition of Mole rat
1. Noun. African rodent resembling a mole in habits and appearance.
2. Noun. Furry short-limbed tailless rodent resembling a true mole in habits and appearance; of eastern Europe and Middle East.
3. Noun. Burrowing scaly-tailed rat of India and Ceylon.
Definition of Mole rat
1. Noun. Any of several small rodents in taxonomic families ''Bathyergidae'' and ''Spalacidae''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mole Rat
Literary usage of Mole rat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... the eyes arc, however, functional, and the head is rounded. (See MOLE-RAT.)
According to the arrangement here followed, the burrowing ..."
2. African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American by Theodore Roosevelt (1910)
"mole rat mounds were common about the West Kenia Forest Station, ... This mole
rat, which proved to be new to science, was first encountered at ..."
3. Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatires on the Principles of by Richard Owen, Wm S Orr, John Radford Young, Alexander Jardine, Robert Gordon Latham, Edward Smith, William Sweetland Dallas (1855)
"... it is usual for a man to be employed in nothing else than sucking and destroying
these animals. Like the Fig. 356,—The Mole-Rat (Spalax ..."
4. The International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia by James Orr (1915)
"While the mole digs with its powerful and peculiarly shaped front feet, the
mole-rat digs with its nose, its feet being normal in shape. See LIZARD. ..."
5. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"... H. A plow having a pointed iron shoe secured to the end of a standard, used
in making a deep drain for water. mole-rat (môl'rat), /t. ..."
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