mole rat

English Thesaurus

1. burrowing scaly-tailed rat of India and Ceylon (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	rat,
definition	:	any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus nesokia, nesokia,
definition	:	bandicoot rats (noun.animal)

2. furry short-limbed tailless rodent resembling a true mole in habits and appearance; of eastern Europe and Middle East (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	gnawer, rodent,
definition	:	relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus spalax, spalax,
definition	:	type genus of the Spalacidae (noun.animal)

3. African rodent resembling a mole in habits and appearance (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	gnawer, rodent,
definition	:	relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	bathyergus, genus bathyergus,
definition	:	mole rats (noun.animal)