starnose mole

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

   Synonymsstar-nosed moleCondylura cristata

   Broadermole

Questions about starnose mole

What does starnose mole mean?

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

What is another word for starnose mole?

Close synonyms include star-nosed mole, Condylura cristata. 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 starnose mole a common word?

starnose mole 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.