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New World rodent, plain, with tail
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prairie dog
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Prairie dogs (genus Cynomys ) are herbivorous burrowing rodents native to the grasslands of North America . The five species are: black-tailed , white-tailed , Gunnison's , Utah , and Mexican prairie dogs . They are a type of ground squirrel , found in ...
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Prairie \Prai"rie\, n. [F., an extensive meadow, OF. praerie, LL. prataria, fr. L. pratum a meadow.] An extensive tract of level or rolling land, destitute of trees, covered with coarse grass, and usually characterized by a deep, fertile soil. They abound ...
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Etymology 1 n. Any of genus (taxlink Cynomus genus noshow=1), small, stout-bodied burrowing rodents with shallow cheek pouches, native to North America and Central Americ Etymology 2 alt. 1 (context intransitive transitive English) To pop up from a hole ...
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n. any of several rodents of North American prairies living in large complex burrows having a barking cry [syn: prairie marmot ]
Usage examples of prairie dog.
If Dish Boggett, with his prairie dog of a mustache, considered himself too refined to throw his bedroll beside two fine pigs, then he could rout them out himself.
We found 2 frogs in the hole, and killed a dark rattlesnake near with a ground rat [or prairie dog] in him.
Far off a prairie dog yowled, and the wind made a ghostly rustle through the cottonwoods.
Once a man has lived with mountains you can't offer him a home with a prairie dog.
After digging down another of the holes for six feet, we found, on running a pole into it, that we had not yet dug half-way to the bottom: we discovered, however, two frogs in the hole, and near it we killed a dark rattlesnake, which had swallowed a small prairie dog.
With that kind of price on his head you know there's going to be people digging up prairie dog holes and uncovering fresh graves in the camposanto looking for Joe.
By the time I was nine I could thread a bullet up a prairie dog's ass and out his nose from thirty yards away while he was on a dead rua killed my first deer when I was twelve.
Eileen was out of her seat without thinking, her hand reaching for her gun, and because she was standing she got the best view out the window of an eagle sweeping down for a second blow on a prairie dog.
Coyote walked to where the prairie dog had disappeared under the walkway.
A prairie dog scampered across the road and under the wooden sidewalk.