Mole (disambiguation)

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same or a similar title.

Mole may mean:

• Mole (animal) or mouldywarp, a burrowing insectivorous mammal in the family Talpidae, with short velvety fur and enlarged front limbs. The origin of a number of other meanings:
  • Golden mole, a burrowing insectivorous mammal in the family Chrysochloridae, not closely related to true moles
  • Mole-rats, rodents of several different families which live underground like moles
  • Marsupial mole, a mole-like marsupial
  • Mole cricket, a mole-like cricket in the family Gryllotalpidae
  • Mole salamander, a burrowing salamander in the family Ambystomatidae
  • Mole, a tunnel boring machine
  • Mole plough, a deep plough for cutting buried drainage channels under wet farmland
  • Mole (espionage), a spy buried secretly within an organisation or country
  • River Mole, Surrey, a river, part of whose course runs underground in dry weather
  • River Mole, Bedfordshire
  • River Mole, Devon
  • 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 may also refer to:

• Mole (unit), the SI unit (symbol mol) used in chemistry for the amount of a particular substance
• Mole (sauce), a Mexican sauce made from chili peppers and other spices, including chocolate
• Mole, a melanocytic nevus, a small area of skin, sometimes raised, with darker pigment
• Mole (architecture), a massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, jetty, breakwater, or junction between places separated by water
• Mole Antonelliana, a major landmark in Turin
• Mole wrench, a generic term in the UK for vice-grips or lock-jaw pliers, named after a trade name for such tools
• Hydatidiform mole, a medical condition
• Type 33 Mole aircraft, the Beriev Be-8

Mole in culture:

• Mole, an anthropomorphised mole, a main character in the children's novel Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
• The Mole, a reality television series
• The Mole (South Park), a psychotic French character from the animated series South Park
• Mole (Zdeněk Miler character), an animated character
• The Mole (emcee/producer), underground hip hop personality
• Adrian Mole, a fictional diarist in a series of novels by Sue Townsend
• The Mole, a timid fictional character appearing in 3 of the Novels from Terry Brooks' "Shannara"