marsupial mole

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noun

a burrowing Australian marsupial of the genus Notoryctes, resembling a common mole in form and behavior.

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Also called pouched mole.

Origin of marsupial mole

First recorded in 1895–1900

Words nearby marsupial mole

Mars red, Marston, Marston Moor, marsupial, marsupial bone, marsupial mole, marsupial mouse, marsupium, Mars violet, Marsyas, Mars yellow

How to use marsupial mole in a sentence

Traces of an arboreal ancestry could be demonstrated even in the marsupial mole Notoryctes.
Form and Function|E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

British Dictionary definitions for marsupial mole

marsupial mole

noun

any molelike marsupial of the family Notoryctidae

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