1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Mole-Shrew

MOLE-SHREW, any individual of the genera Urotrichus and Uropsilus (see Insectivora). These animals, which are sometimes called shrew-moles, are not moles with shrew-like habits, but shrews with the burrowing habits of moles and resembling them in appearance.

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