water mole

English

Alternative forms

• watermole

Etymology

From water +‎ mole.

Noun

water mole (plural water moles)

1. A shrew mole.
2. A duck mole; platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus).
3. A desman (Desmana moschata or Galemys pyrenaicus).

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “water mole”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)