Mole (disambiguation)

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Mole may refer to:

Contents 1 Animals 2 Things relating to animal moles 3 Other underground things named after animal moles 4 General 5 Places 5.1 Africa 5.2 Europe 5.3 Oceania 6 People 7 Culture 7.1 Fictional characters 7.2 Music 7.3 Computer games 7.4 Film and TV 8 See also

• Mole, those of the burrowing insectivorous mammals in the family Talpidae which have short velvety fur and enlarged front limbs; the original burrowing moles
• Mole (espionage), a spy buried secretly within an organization or country
• Mole (unit), the SI unit (symbol mol) used in chemistry for the amount of a substance

[edit] Animals

Unrelated Animals also Called Moles

• Golden mole, burrowing insectivorous mammals in the family Chrysochloridae, not closely related to true moles
• Marsupial mole, burrowing insectivorous marsupial mammals in the order Notoryctemorphia, not closely related to true moles.
• Duck Mole, the platypus.

Used as a modifier, means “mole-like”

• Mole cricket, Mole-like cricket
• Mole crab, Mole-like crab
• Mole-shrew, Mole-like shrew
• Mole-rat Mole-like rodent

Used as a modifier, “mole-like” = "subterranean"

• Mole skink, subterranean skink
• Mole salamander, subterranean salamander
• Mole Kingsnake, subterranean kingsnake
• Mole lobster, subterranean lobster
• Mole viper subterranean viper

[edit] Things relating to animal moles

• Molehill or mole-hill, a conical pile of soil pushed up at intervals by moles or other burrowing animals when digging burrows, especially beneath grassland or lawns
• Moleskin, originally the skin of a mole, but later a heavy, soft, durable cotton fabric, or clothing made from this
• Mole plant or caper spurge (Euphorbia lathyris), a plant said to keep away moles

[edit] Other underground things named after animal moles

• Mole plough or subsoiler, a deep plough for cutting buried drainage channels under wet farmland, or breaking up compacted soil
• Mole, a tunnel boring machine
• Mole people (urban legend), people supposed to live in organised societies in urban tunnel systems
• Whac-A-Mole, a mechanical arcade game in which model moles pop up out of holes and must be hit with a mallet

[edit] General

• Mole (skin marking) or melanocytic nevus, a small, sometimes raised area of skin, usually with darker pigment
• Mole Day, an unofficial holiday, its date and time derived from the number of molecules in a chemical mole
• Mole (sauce), a Mexican sauce made from chilli peppers and other spices, including chocolate
• Mole (architecture), a massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, jetty, breakwater, or junction between places separated by water
• Mole wrench or mole grips, locking pliers, named after a trade name for such tools
• Hydatidiform mole, an abnormal form of pregnancy, where the uterus contains an anomalous growth instead of a viable embryo
• Type 33 Mole aircraft, the Beriev Be-8
• Mole or Mole-Richardson, a stage and motion picture lighting manufacturing company
• Maria-mole, a dessert popular in Brazil, similar to marshmallow

[edit] Places

[edit] Africa

• Mole River (Ghana), a tributary of the White Volta in Ghana
• Mole National Park, in Northern Region, Ghana, named after Mole River

[edit] Europe

• River Mole, Surrey, in southern England, part of whose course runs underground in dry weather
  • Mole Valley, a local government district in the valley of the River Mole, Surrey, England
  • Mole Valley (UK Parliament constituency)
• River Mole, Devon, in south-west England
• La Môle, a commune of the Var Département, France
• Le Môle, a mountain peak in the French Alps near Bonneville, Haute-Savoie
• Mole Antonelliana, a landmark in Turin, Italy

[edit] Oceania

• Mole Creek, Tasmania, a town in northern Tasmania, Australia
• Mole River (New South Wales), a river in northern New South Wales, Australia
• North Mole Lighthouse, a lighthouse at Fremantle, Western Australia

[edit] People

• Chris Mole (Christopher David Mole, born 1958), UK Labour Member of Parliament
• Fenton Mole (born 1925), American baseball player
• Jamie Mole (born 1988), an English professional footballer
• Miff Mole, (Irving Milfred Mole, 1898–1961), American jazz trombonist and band leader
• The Mole (MC/producer) (Jonah Mociun), underground hip hop personality

[edit] Culture

[edit] Fictional characters

• Mole, an anthropomorphised animal mole, a main character in the children's novel Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
• The Mole (South Park), a psychotic French character from the animated series South Park
• Mole (Zdeněk Miler character), an animated character
• Adrian Mole, a fictional diarist in a series of novels by Sue Townsend
• The Mole, a timid fictional character appearing in three of the fantasy novels from Terry Brooks's Shannara series
• The Mole (Happy Tree Friends), a character from the cartoon series Happy Tree Friends
• The Mole Man, a fictional supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe
• Mole Men, a race of tall hairy beings from the comedy-action TV series Saul of the Mole Men
• Mole People or Moloids, a race of underground-dwellers in Subterranea comics
• Hans Moleman, a character in The Simpsons
• The Mole, or Gaetan Moliére, a character in Atlantis: The Lost Empire and its sequel, Atlantis: Milo's Return

[edit] Music

• Matching Mole, UK progressive rock band
• Molemen, a trio of Hip Hop producers from Chicago, Illinois
• Mole Listening Pearls, a German record label

[edit] Computer games

• Mole Mania, a video game for the original Game Boy
• Monty Mole, a video game character

[edit] Film and TV

• The Mole People (film), 1956 horror film
• El Topo (The Mole), 1970 film
• The Mole (TV series), a reality television series
  • The Mole (Australian TV series) Australian version
  • The Mole (UK TV series) UK version
  • The Mole (US TV series) US version

[edit] See also

• Molar
• Mol
• Moll

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