Mole

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Mole or Molé may refer to:

Animals

• Mole (animal) or "true mole", mammals in the family Talpidae, found in Eurasia and North America
• Golden moles, southern African mammals, similar to but unrelated to Talpidae moles
• Marsupial moles, Australian mammals, similar to but unrelated to Talpidae moles

Media and entertainment

• Adrian Mole, central character in a series of novels by Sue Townsend
• Mole, main character in the children's novel The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
• Mole (Zdeněk Miler character), Czech animated character
• Monty Mole, video game character
• Morocco Mole, Secret Squirrel's sidekick
• The Mole, criminal in Dick Tracy comic strips
• El Topo (The Mole), a 1970 film

Medicine, science and technology

• Mole, colloquial name for a Nevus, a usually benign but sometimes malignant growth on human skin
  • Melanocytic nevus, another term for mole
• "Mole", NATO reporting name for Beriev Be-8, a Soviet amphibian aircraft
• "mole", informal name of Cultivator No. 6, a trench-digging machine of World War II
• Mole (unit), the SI unit for the amount of substance
• Tunnel boring machine, sometimes called a mole

People

• Mole (espionage), a spy
• Mole (surname)
• Molé, a French surname

Places

Other uses

• Mole (architecture), a pier, jetty, breakwater, or junction between places separated by water
• Mole sauce, Mexican sauce made from chili peppers, other spices, and chocolate
• Mole-Richardson or Mole, a stage and motion picture lighting manufacturing company
• Moll (slang), sometimes spelled mole, in Australian English

See also

• Mole wrench, trade name of a type of locking pliers from M. K. Mole and Son
• Mol (disambiguation)
• Moles (disambiguation)
• Moll (disambiguation)