Mole

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Mole may refer to:

Animals

• Mole (animal) or "true mole", many of the 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

Other common meanings

• Mole (architecture), a pier, jetty, breakwater, or junction between places separated by water
• Mole (espionage), a spy who has worked his or her way into an organization or country
• Mole (sauce), a Mexican sauce made from chili peppers, other spices, and chocolate
• Mole (unit), the SI unit (symbol mol) used in chemistry for the amount of a substance
• Mole-Richardson or Mole, a stage and motion picture lighting manufacturing company
• Mole or melanocytic nevus, a benign tumor on human skin, usually with darker pigment
• Mole, variant spelling of Moll (slang) in Australian English
• Mole, the NATO reporting name of the Soviet Beriev Be-8 amphibian aircraft

People

• Mole (surname)

Places

Australia

• Mole Creek, Tasmania, a town
• Mole River (New South Wales)

England

• River Mole, Surrey
• River Mole, Devon

France

• La Môle, a commune of the Var Département
• Le Môle, a mountain peak in the French Alps

Ghana

• Mole River, a tributary of the White Volta
• Mole National Park, named after the Mole River

India

• Mole, Karnataka, a village in Karnataka state
• Mole, a village in Andhra Pradesh state

Art, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

• Mole (Zdeněk Miler character), a Czech animated character
• The Mole (Happy Tree Friends), a character from the cartoon series Happy Tree Friends
• Adrian Mole, the central character in a series of novels by Sue Townsend
• Monty Mole, a video game character
• Mole, an anthropomorphic mole, a main character in the children's novel The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
• Foremole, name for a number of anthropomorphic mole characters in the children's novel series Redwall by Brian Jacques
• Morocco Mole, Secret Squirrel's sidekick
• The Mole, a French character from the animated musical film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
• The Mole, a fictional character in three fantasy novels in Terry Brooks' Shannara series
• The Mole, Gaetan Moliére, a character in Atlantis: The Lost Empire and its sequel, Atlantis: Milo's Return
• The Mole, a tunnelling machine in the TV series Thunderbirds

Film and television

• El Topo (The Mole), 1970 film
• The Mole People (1956), a horror film

Periodicals

• The Mole, a magazine for chemistry students from the publishers of Education in Chemistry magazine

Television

• The Mole (TV series), a reality television series
  • The Mole (Australian TV series) Australian version
  • The Mole (U.S. TV series) U.S. version
  • The Mole (UK TV series) UK version

Devices and implements

• Mole, an informal name for Cultivator No. 6, a Second World War trench-digging machine
• Mole plough or Subsoiler, an agricultural device
• Mole, a tunnel boring machine

See also

• Mol (disambiguation)
• Molé (disambiguation)
• Moles (disambiguation)
• Moll (disambiguation)