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A pigmented spot on the skin, a naevus, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy.
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Any of several small, burrowing insectivores of the family Talpidae.
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Any of the burrowing rodents also called mole rats.
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An internal spy, a person who involves himself or herself with an enemy organisation, especially an intelligence or governmental organisation, to determine and betray its secrets from within.
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A kind of self-propelled excavator used to form underground drains, or to clear underground pipelines
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A type of underground drain used in farm fields, in which a mole plow creates an unlined channel through clay subsoil.
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A moll, a bitch, a slut.
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A massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater or junction between places separated by water.
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A haven or harbour, protected with such a breakwater.
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An Ancient Roman mausoleum.
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In the International System of Units, the base unit of amount of substance; the amount of substance of a system which contains as many elementary entities (atoms, ions, molecules, etc.) as there are atoms in 0.012 kg of carbon-12. Symbol: mol. The number of atoms is known as Avogadro’s number.
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A hemorrhagic mass of tissue in the uterus caused by a dead ovum.
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One of several spicy sauces typical of the cuisine of Mexico and neighboring Central America, especially the sauce which contains chocolate and which is used in cooking main dishes, not desserts.
Examples of moles in a Sentence
One of Greene's moles caught it.
The foundations also of the moles that separate the harbours are of Hellenic work, though the existing moles were erected by the Knights of St John.
Hares, rabbits, field-mice, waterrats, rats, squirrels, moles, game-birds, pigeons, and small birds, form the chief food of the wild cat.
The remains of its moles were destroyed in 1807-1809.
By the colonists it is called "water-mole," but its affinities with the true moles are of the slightest and most superficial description.
The fore-limbs may, however, be modified, as in moles, for burrowing, or, as in bats, for flight, or finally, as in whales and dolphins, for swimming, with the assumption in this latter instance of a flipper-like form and the complete disappearance of the hind-limbs.
Though usually more or less cylindrical or circular in section, hairs are often elliptical or flattened, as in the curly-haired races of men, the terminal portion of the hair of moles and shrews, and conspicuously in the spines of the spiny squirrels of the genus Xerus and those of the mouse-like Platacanthomys.
When, as is the case among nearly all existing mammals with the exception of the members of the genera Sus (pigs), Gymnura (ratshrew), Talpa (moles) and Myogale (desmans) the number of teeth is reduced below the typical forty-four, it appears to be an almost universal rule that if one of the incisors is missing it is the second, or middle one, while the premolars commence to disappear from the front end of the series and the molars from the hinder end.
In the insectivorous type, as exemplified in moles and shrew-mice, the middle pair of incisors in each jaw are long and pointed so as to have a forceps-like action for seizing insects, the hard coats of which are broken up by the numerous sharp cusps surmounting the cheek-teeth.
There are several harbours, including the Porto Canale, for coasting vessels; the Porto Baross, for timber; and the Porto Grande, sheltered by the Maria Theresia mole and breakwater, besides four lesser moles, and flanked by the quays, with their grain-elevators.
The harbour is protected by moles.
The latter founded a colony of veterans and built a new harbour, the projecting moles of which are still extant.
The undated book on moles and naevi by " Merlin Britannicus, " after the model of `Ali ibn Ragel, is of about the same date.
Madagascar is the sole habitat of the tenrecs (Centetidae), as is Southern Africa of the golden moles (Chrysochloridae).
The bay affords good anchorage, but only small vessels can come up to the two moles.
On one side of this, towards Hymettus, lay the open roadstead of Phalerum, on the other the harbour of Peiraeus, a completely land-locked inlet, safe, deep and spacious, the approach to which was still further narrowed by moles.
The moles use a similar artifice in clearing out the dirt from the cavities they form by scraping.
This includes skin tags, warts, benign moles, seborrhoeic warts and epidermoid cysts.
Suitable problems include sebaceous cysts, skin tags, in-growing toenails and moles.
Moles survive and thrive in virtually every part of the country, save only where acid soils contain no earthworms.
Battery or solar operated devices can be placed in the ground to help deter moles from burrowing in your garden.
They can catch the moles simply by moving the mouse over the picture.
By contrast, all hydatidiform moles showed normal CGH profiles.
There are healthy populations of hedgehogs, moles, field mice, common and Pigmy shrews, and short-tailed and bank voles.
The amount of solute dissolved in 1dm 3 can be given in grams or moles.
Use spot concealer to hide freckles, pimples, scars, moles and age spots.
Areas that have high concentrations of melanin are freckles and moles.
Those who have a lot of moles and are constantly exposed to the sun without protecting their skin are also at an increased risk.
Moles can be round, oval, flat, or raised.
Most moles are brown, but colors can range from pinkish flesh tones to yellow, dark blue, or black.
Some moles disappear completely, and some never lighten at all.
Some moles develop stalks that raise them above the skin's surface; these moles eventually drop off.
Moles that are present at birth are called congenital nevi.
Most moles are benign (not cancerous), but atypical moles (dysplastic nevi) may develop into malignant melanoma, a potentially fatal form of skin cancer.
Congenital nevi are more apt to become cancerous than moles that develop after birth, especially if they are more than eight inches in diameter.
One in three of these moles develop into a form of skin cancer known as lentigo maligna melanoma.
Nearly everyone has at least a few moles.
A mole's color and shape do not usually change; however, changes in hormone levels that occur during puberty and pregnancy can make moles larger and darker.
New moles may also appear during this period.
About 1 to 3 percent of all babies have one or more moles when they are born.
Only about one in 1 million moles is cancerous.
The cause of moles is unknown, although atypical moles seem to run in families and result from exposure to sunlight.
Most experts, however, think that these susceptibility genes are not sufficient by themselves to account for moles becoming cancerous but are influenced by a combination of other inherited traits and environmental factors.
Only a small percentage of moles require medical attention.
The dermatoscope, which can be used to distinguish between benign moles and melanomas, is an instrument that resembles an ophthalmoscope used to look at the eye.
A combination of high-frequency ultrasound and color Doppler studies has also been shown to have a high degree of accuracy in distinguishing between melanomas and benign moles.
Moles are rarely cancerous and, once removed, unlikely to recur.
Wearing a sunscreen and limiting sun exposure may prevent some moles.
Anyone who has moles should examine them every month and see a dermatologist if changes in size, shape, color, or texture occur or if new moles appear.
Advances in photographic technique had as of 2004 made it easier to track the development of moles with the help of whole-body photographs.