Mole
Animals
- Mole (animal) or "true mole", mammals in the family Talpidae, found in Eurasia and North America
- Golden moles, southern African mammals in the family Chrysochloridae, similar to but unrelated to Talpidae moles
- Marsupial moles, Australian mammals in the family Notoryctidae, similar to but unrelated to Talpidae moles
Other common meanings
- Mole, colloquial name for a nevus, a growth on human skin
- Melanocytic nevus, another term for mole
- Mole (architecture), a pier, jetty, breakwater, or junction between places separated by water
- Mole (espionage), a spy who inserts himself into an organisation in order to spy on it.
- Mole (sauce), Mexican sauce made from chili peppers, often including fruits, other spices, or chocolate
Arts and entertainment
- Adrian Mole, the central character in a series of novels by Sue Townsend
- Mole, a main character in the children's novel The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
- Mole (Zdeněk Miler character), a Czech animated character
- Monty Mole, a video game character
- Morocco Mole, Secret Squirrel's sidekick
- The Mole, a character in Happy Tree Friends
- The Mole, a criminal in Dick Tracy comic strips
- El Topo (The Mole), a 1970 film
- De Mol (TV series), a reality television show
- "The Mole," a single by Harry James
Science and technology
- Mole (unit), the SI unit for the amount of substance
- Tunnel boring machine, sometimes called a mole
- "the mole", nickname of a burrowing probe in the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package which was sent to Mars
People
- Mole (surname)
- Molé, a French surname
Places
Australia
- Mole River (New South Wales)
- Mole Creek (Tasmania)
England
- River Mole, Surrey
- River Mole, Devon
Ghana
- Mole River, a tributary of the White Volta
- Mole National Park, named after the Mole River
India
- Mole, a village in Andhra Pradesh state
- Mole, Karnataka, a village in Karnataka state
Myanmar
- Mole, Shwegu, a village
Other uses
- "Mole", NATO reporting name for the Beriev Be-8, a Soviet amphibious aircraft
- "mole", informal name of Cultivator No. 6, a trench-digging machine of World War II
- 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)
- The Mole (disambiguation)
- Moles (disambiguation)
- Moll (disambiguation)
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