marsupial mole
noun
a burrowing Australian marsupial of the genus Notoryctes, resembling a common mole in form and behavior.
Origin of marsupial mole
1First recorded in 1895–1900
- Also called pouched mole.
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How to use marsupial mole in a sentence
Traces of an arboreal ancestry could be demonstrated even in the marsupial mole Notoryctes.
Form and Function | E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
British Dictionary definitions for marsupial mole
marsupial mole
noun
any molelike marsupial of the family Notoryctidae
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