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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The mole-rat, Spalax typhlus. See cut under mole-rat.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A burrowing rodent (Spalax typhlus), native of Russia and Asia Minor. It has the general appearance of a mole, and is destitute of eyes. Called also mole rat.

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  • noun zoology, archaic The mole rat.

Etymologies

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Russian слепец ("blind man; mole rat").

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