…a small burrowing mammal with dark velvety fur, a long muzzle, and very small eyes, feeding mainly on worms, grubs, and other invertebrates…
…a small, often slightly raised blemish on the skin made dark by a high concentration of melanin…
…a large solid structure on a shore serving as a pier, breakwater, or causeway…
…the SI unit of amount of substance, equal to the quantity containing as many elementary units as there are atoms in 0.012 kg of carbon-12…
…a highly spiced Mexican sauce made chiefly from chilli peppers and chocolate, served with meat…
…a herbivorous short-legged rat-like rodent that typically lives permanently underground, with long incisors that protrude from the mouth and are used in digging…
…a blind mole with an iridescent sheen to its coat, native to southern Africa…
…a plough in which a pointed iron shoe attached to an upright support is drawn along beneath the surface, making a hollow drainage channel resembling a mole’s burrow…
…a small shrew-like mole with a long tail, native to Asia and North America…
…a large burrowing nocturnal cricket-like insect with broad forelegs, the female of which lays her eggs in an underground nest and guards the young. Very rare in Britain, it can be a pest in some other areas…
…a mole-like burrowing Australian marsupial with yellow fur and a horny shield on the front of the head…
…a stocky, broad-headed North American salamander which spends much of its life underground…
…a cluster of fluid-filled sacs formed in the womb by the degeneration of chorionic tissue around an aborting embryo…
…a blind and hairless mole rat living in large underground colonies in East Africa. The colony structure is similar to that of social insects, with only one pair breeding and most other individuals acting as workers…
…a mole with a number of fleshy radiating tentacles around its nostrils, native to north-eastern North America…
…a small mound of earth thrown up by a mole burrowing near the surface…
…used in names of insects of related families, e.g. bush cricket, mole cricket…
…a small burrowing mammal with dark velvety fur, a long muzzle, and very small eyes, feeding mainly on worms, grubs, and other invertebrates…
