naked mole rat

1. 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

   Broaderfossorial mammal

   Narrowerqueen

   Part ofRodentia

Questions about naked mole rat

What does naked mole rat mean?

naked mole rat means "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".

Is naked mole rat a common word?

naked mole rat 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.