water-mole

The water-mole also abounds in all the rivers and ponds.

Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales 2003

The guest had little difficulty, in recognising the uncouth form of the ornithorhynchus, or water-mole; but he turned with yet more eagerness, towards the spot, whence that shot had proceeded.

A Love Story A Bushman

There is no danger of my obtaining her, "he added, with a grim smile," for he hates me like a water-mole.

The Delight Makers Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier 1877

So far as we know at present, the platypus duck-mole, or water-mole, is the strangest of all animals.

Chatterbox, 1906 Various 1873

John Cox presented the commander with two specimens of the water-mole, also called the ornithorhynchus, a curious amphibious creature, the habits of which are still little known to European naturalists, many museums not possessing a single specimen.

Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century Jules Verne 1866

The field game are the kangaroos, emus, black swans, wild geese, wild turkeys, bustards, ducks of various kinds, quail, bronze-winged and other pigeons, etc.etc. The water-mole also abounds in all the rivers and ponds.

Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales John Oxley 1804