sand rat

Questions about sand rat

What does sand rat mean?

sand rat means "small nearly naked African mole rat of desert areas". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for sand rat?

Close synonyms include Meriones longifrons. 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 sand rat a common word?

sand rat is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.