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Definition of Talpa
1. n. A genus of small insectivores including the common European mole.
Definition of Talpa
1. the mole genus [n TALPAS or TALPAE]
Medical Definition of Talpa
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Talpa
Literary usage of Talpa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Bristol Naturalists' Society (Bristol, England), Bristol Naturalists' Society (1891)
"Genua talpa.— Mole. Back covered with hair, furnished with a tail. Incisors in
the upper jaw ... Fore feet broad and formed for digging. " talpa ..."
2. A History of the British Sessile-eyed Crustacea by Charles Spence Bate, John Obadiah Westwood (1868)
"... talpa. Specific character. Front of cephalon terminating in a ... talpa.
MONTAGU, Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. p. 88, t. 6, f. 6. LEACH, Edinb. Enc. vii. p. ..."
3. The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies by Antonio de Alcedo, George Alexander Thompson (1814)
"... belonging to the district of the former. talpa, and which they gather in its
district, mid is of great estimation. Twenty-four miles s. from Vera Cruz, ..."
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