condylura cristata

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   amphibious mole of eastern North America having pink fleshy tentacles around the nose

   Synonymsstarnose molestar-nosed mole

   Broadermole

Questions about condylura cristata

What does condylura cristata mean?

condylura cristata means "amphibious mole of eastern North America having pink fleshy tentacles around the nose".

What is another word for condylura cristata?

Close synonyms include starnose mole, star-nosed mole. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is condylura cristata a common word?

condylura cristata is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.