QUEEN MOLE RAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does queen mole rat mean? 

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

1. 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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUEEN MOLE RAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

queen; queen mole rat

Hypernyms ("queen mole rat" is a kind of...):

naked mole rat (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)