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Definition of Marsupial mole
1. Noun. Small burrowing Australian marsupial that resembles a mole.
Generic synonyms: Marsupial, Pouched Mammal
Group relationships: Genus Notoryctus, Notoryctus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Marsupial Mole
Literary usage of Marsupial mole
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1905)
"THE MYOLOGY OF THE HIND LIMB OF THE marsupial mole ... nature of the relationships
existing between the marsupial mole and other more or less allied forms. ..."
2. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"Notori/ctes typhlops, the " marsupial mole " as it has been termed, was originally
discovered by Professor Stirling in Central South Australia. ..."
3. The Outline of Science: A Plain Story Simply Told by John Arthur Thomson (1922)
"The Common Mole burrows in soft soil, and its hand is therefore broad; but the
Cape Golden Mole and the quite unrelated "marsupial mole" burrow in hard soil ..."
4. The Life of Animals: The Mammals by Ernest Ingersoll (1907)
"The marsupial mole is not only blind, but its eyes have been more completely lost
by degeneration than in any other known case; and its anatomy abounds in ..."
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