talpid

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English

Etymology

From scientific Latin Talpidae (family name), ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin talpa (“mole”).

Noun

talpid (plural talpids)

  1. (zoology) A member of the family Talpidae, comprising moles and related insectivorous mammals.
    • 2016 November 16, Hanneke Meijer, “Sunny steppes? A tiny parrot fossil suggests Siberia was once subtropical”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      The several species of small mammals found at Tagay, such as dormice, talpids and hedgehogs, show close affinities to European taxa.
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