queen mole rat

1. 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

   Synonymsqueen

   Broadernaked mole rat

Questions about queen mole rat

What does queen mole rat mean?

queen mole rat means "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".

What is another word for queen mole rat?

Close synonyms include queen. 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 queen mole rat a common word?

queen 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.