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mole-rats

mole-rats is the plural of mole-rat.

Meaning of mole-rat

Noun

mole-rat (plural mole-rats)

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

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Questions about mole-rats

What is mole-rats the plural of?
Mole-rats is the plural of mole-rat.

Words near mole-rats in the dictionary

  1. Mole Valley
  2. mole-bank
  3. mole-banks
  4. mole-eyed
  5. mole-rat
  6. mole-rats
  7. molebut
  8. molebuts
  9. molecast
  10. molecasts
  11. molecatcher

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