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NAKED MOLE RAT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fetal-looking colonial rodent of East Africa; neither mole nor rat; they feed on tubers and have a social structure similar to that of honeybees and termites
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("naked mole rat" is a kind of...):
fossorial mammal (a burrowing mammal having limbs adapted for digging)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "naked mole rat"):
queen; queen mole rat (an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males)
Holonyms ("naked mole rat" is a member of...):
order Rodentia; Rodentia (small gnawing animals: porcupines; rats; mice; squirrels; marmots; beavers; gophers; voles; hamsters; guinea pigs; agoutis)
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