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mole-rat

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.55 in modern English

Syllables
mole-rat
IPA
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the family Bathyergidae of burrowing rodents.

noun

In the family Spalacidae:

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In the family Spalacidae:

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In the family Spalacidae:

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In the family Muridae:

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In the family Muridae:

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A naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber)

Inflected Forms

mole-rats (plural) mole rat (alternative)

Phrases

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

Questions

What does mole-rat mean?
Any of the family Bathyergidae of burrowing rodents.

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