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Noun: sand rat
  1. Small nearly naked African mole rat of desert areas
     
  2. Southern European gerbil
    - Meriones longifrons

Derived forms: sand rats

Type of: gerbil, gerbille, gnawer, rodent

Part of: genus Heterocephalus, genus Meriones, Heterocephalus, Meriones

Encyclopedia: Sand rat