FAMILY TALPIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Talpidae mean? 

• FAMILY TALPIDAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY TALPIDAE has 1 sense:

1. moles

  Familiarity information: FAMILY TALPIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY TALPIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Moles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Talpidae; Talpidae

Hypernyms ("family Talpidae" is a kind of...):

mammal family (a family of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "family Talpidae"):

mole (small velvety-furred burrowing mammal having small eyes and fossorial forefeet)

Condylura; genus Condylura (star-nosed moles)

genus Parascalops; Parascalops (brewer's moles)

genus Uropsilus; Uropsilus; genus Neurotrichus; Neurotrichus (shrew moles)

Holonyms ("family Talpidae" is a member of...):

Insectivora; order Insectivora (shrews; moles; hedgehogs; tenrecs)

 Context examples 

A small, mammal of the family Talpidae that lives underground and feeds on small invertebrates.

(Mole, NCI Thesaurus)