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 benign 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
England
- River Mole, Surrey
- River Mole, Devon
France
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
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