NAKED MOLE RAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does naked mole rat mean? 

• NAKED MOLE RAT (noun)
  The noun NAKED MOLE RAT has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: NAKED MOLE RAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NAKED MOLE RAT (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

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Nouns denoting animals

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)