Mole

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Mole, The Mole or variants 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

Human skin

• Nevus, colloquially called a mole, a usually benign but sometimes malignant growth on human skin, usually with darker pigment
• Melanocytic nevus, another term for mole

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), an SI unit in chemistry
• Mole, a tunnel boring machine

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

Italy

• Mole Antonelliana, a major landmark building in Turin

Art, entertainment, and media

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
• The Mole, a tunnelling machine in the TV series Thunderbirds

Fictional entities

• Mole (Zdeněk Miler character), a Czech animated character
• The Mole (Happy Tree Friends), 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
• Morocco Mole, Secret Squirrel's sidekick
• The Mole, from the animated musical film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
• The Mole, in three fantasy novels in Terry Brooks' Shannara series
• The Mole, Gaetan Moliére, in the animated film Atlantis: The Lost Empire and its sequel, Atlantis: Milo's Return

Other uses

• Mole (surname)
• Mole, the NATO reporting name of the Soviet Beriev Be-8 amphibian aircraft
• Mole, an informal name for Cultivator No. 6, a Second World War trench-digging machine
• Mole-Richardson or Mole, a stage and motion picture lighting manufacturing company
• Mole, variant spelling of Moll (slang) in Australian English
• Mole wrench, trade name of a type of locking pliers from M. K. Mole and Son
• Mole or Moll, Australian slang

See also

• Mol (disambiguation)
• Molé (disambiguation)
• Moles (disambiguation)
• Moll (disambiguation)
• El Topo (The Mole), a 1970 film