blesmol

English

Etymology

From Afrikaans blesmol, from bles (“blaze (fleck of colour on animal coat)”) + mol (“mole”).[1] Compare blesbok.

Noun

blesmol (plural blesmols)

  1. Any mole rat in the family Bathyergidae.

References
  1. Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1782) Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière (in French), volume 35 (Supplement 6), page 252. Blesmol is glossed as taupe tachetée ("spotted mole").
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