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Molelike mammal
Answer for the clue "Molelike mammal ", 6 letters:
desman
Word definitions for desman in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Desman may refer to: Desman , a snouted and naked-tailed diving insectivore of the tribe Desmanini Pyrenean desman Russian desman , also known as Desmana Shawn Desman , Canadian singer
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Either of two species, (taxlink Desmana moschata species noshow=1) or (taxlink Galemys pyrenaicus species noshow=1), of aquatic or semi-aquatic insectivore of the mole family, Talpidae, found in Europe.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Desman \Des"man\ (d[e^]s"man), n. [Cf. Sw. desman musk.] (Zo["o]l.) An amphibious, insectivorous mammal found in Russia ( Myogale moschata ). It is allied to the moles, but is called muskrat by some English writers. [Written also d[ae]sman .]
Usage examples of desman.
He had been so much taken up with encoding that he had not looked at a tenth part of his botany specimens nor even at all his birds and their parasites with anything like really close attention, and the thought of them brought him out of his cot at first light with that almost trembling or rather bubbling excitement he had known from very early days - his first sight of St Dabeoc's heath when he was seven, of a dell filled with Gold of Pleasure the next year, and of the Pyrenean desman (that rare ill-natured cousin to the shrew) only a few weeks after that!