Mole

Mole (or Molé) may refer to:

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

Media and entertainment

• Adrian Mole, central character in a series of novels by Sue Townsend
• Mole, main character in the children's novel The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
• Mole (Zdeněk Miler character), Czech animated character
• Monty Mole, video game character
• Morocco Mole, Secret Squirrel's sidekick
• The Mole, criminal in Dick Tracy comic strips
• El Topo (The Mole), a 1970 film
• Mole-Richardson or Mole, a stage and motion picture lighting manufacturing company
• The Mole (TV series), (also known as De Mol) a reality television show in which a "Mole" is planted within a group of contestants for them to try to unmask

Medicine, science and technology

• Mole (unit), the SI unit for the amount of substance
• Mole, colloquial name for a nevus, a usually benign but sometimes malignant growth on human skin
  • Melanocytic nevus, another term for mole
• "Mole", NATO reporting name for Beriev Be-8, a Soviet amphibious aircraft
• "mole", informal name of Cultivator No. 6, a trench-digging machine of World War II
• Tunnel boring machine, sometimes called a mole
• Mole (architecture), a massive structure used as a pier, breakwater, or a causeway
• Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package, a Martian digging probe

People

• Mole (surname)
• Molé, a French surname

Places

Australia

• Mole River (New South Wales)
• Mole Creek (Tasmania)

England

• River Mole, Surrey
• River Mole, Devon

France

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

Ghana

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

India

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

Other uses

• Mole (architecture), a pier, jetty, breakwater, or junction between places separated by water
• Mole (espionage), a spy
• Mole sauce, Mexican sauce made from chili peppers, often including fruits, other spices, or chocolate
  • Mole verde, a variety of the Mexican sauce based on green chilI peppers and pumpkin seeds
• 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)
• Moles (disambiguation)
• Moll (disambiguation)