| 单词 | east african mole-rat | 
| 释义 | > as lemmaseast African mole-rat   Any of various short-legged herbivorous rodents somewhat resembling moles in appearance and having long protruding incisors used for burrowing; spec.		 (a) a rodent of either of the murid subfamilies  Spalacinae, of the eastern Mediterranean and southern Russia (more fully  blind mole-rat), and  Myospalacinae, of eastern Asia (also called zokor);		 (b) (more fully  African mole-rat) a rodent of the family  Bathyergidae, of sub-Saharan Africa (naked mole-rat: see naked adj. and n.1 Compounds 1);		 (c) (more fully  east African mole-rat) a rodent of the murid subfamily  Rhizomyinae, of eastern Africa, esp. one of the genus  Tachyoryctes (also called root rat). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > 			[noun]		 > family Muridae > genus Spalax (mole-rat) zemni1775 mole-rat1781 rat-mole1827 1781    T. Pennant Hist. Quadrupeds II. 469  				Blind Mole-Rat. 1836–9    Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 176/2  				The mole-rat (Aspalax zemni). 1855    W. S. Dallas in  Syst. Nat. Hist. II. 463  				The Georhychidæ, or Mole-Rats, form another family nearly allied to the Muridæ. 1873    H. B. Tristram Land of Moab vii. 124  				Unsound ground, rendered more treacherous than usual by the washing in of the burrows of the mole-rat. 1885    Riverside Nat. Hist. 		(1888)	 V. 101  				The Mole-rats, or family Spalacidæ. 1885    Riverside Nat. Hist. 		(1888)	 V. 102  				There are some half-dozen species of the latter [sc. Bathyergus], all of South Africa, among them the Strand Mole-rat (B. maritimus). 1962    M. Burton Syst. Dict. Mammals of World 97  				Family Bathyergidae (African Mole-Rats). Includes 6 genera (Georychus, Cryptomys, Bathyergus, etc.). 1962    M. Burton Syst. Dict. Mammals of World 140  				Mole-rat (Tachyoryctes): once placed near Bamboo Rats, now with true rats. 1977    J. L. Harper Population Biol. Plants xv. 468 		(caption)	  				The arrangement of tunnels and larders of the mole rat (Spalax ehrenbergi). 1980    S. H. Prater Bk. Indian Animals 		(ed. 3)	 205  				The Indian Mole-Rat Bandicota bengalensis... The Mole-Rat was classified under a separate genus (Gunomys). It is now included in the genus Bandicota (the bandicoots). 1980    G. B. Corbet  & J. E. Hill World List Mammalian Species 159  				Subfamily Rhizomyinae. East African mole-rats, bamboo rats; c. 6 species. 1991    R. M. Nowak Walker's Mammals of World 		(ed. 5)	 II. 726/2  				African mole-rats are sometimes agricultural pests, because of their raids on sweet potatoes, corn, beans, [etc.]. 1995    Sci. Amer. Aug. 67/2  				Three other species of vertebrates—the blind mole rat of Israel (Spalax), the Cape mole rat of South Africa (Georychus) and the bannertail kangaroo rat of the U.S. Southwest (Dipodomys)—have now been shown to communicate seismically. < as lemmas  | 
	
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