ˈwater-mole
[mole n.2]
† 1. The water-vole, Arvicola amphibius. Obs.
| 1770 Pennant Zool. IV. 84, I imagine it [the water shrew⁓mouse] is the same which the inhabitants of Sutherland name the water mole. |
2. Austral. The ornithorhynchus or duck-bill.
| 1815 in Oxley Jrnls. Two Exped. N.S. Wales (1820) 367 The very curious animal called the water mole (ornithorhynchus paradoxus) is seen in great numbers. 1885 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) V. 11 The Water-mole or Duck-mole of the Australian colonists. |