star-nosed mole in English

noun
1
a mole with a number of fleshy radiating tentacles around its nostrils, native to northeastern North America.
There, in addition to star-nosed moles , he inevitably encounters shrews, voles, weasels, field mice, and the occasional snapping turtle.

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1. The discovery of a somatosensory fovea in the star-nosed mole suggests that this organizational scheme is a general evolutionary solution to constructing a high-resolution sensory system.