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Webster 1913 Edition

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(zō′kôr)

Noun.

(Zool.)

An Asiatic burrowing rodent (

Siphneus aspalax

) resembling the mole rat. It is native of the Altai Mountains.

Myospalax psilurus

zokor ‎(plural zokors)

Any of several Asiatic burrowing rodents native to Central Asia, in the spalacid subfamily Myospalacinae, related to the mole rats.

an Asiatic burrowing rodent