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ground squirrel

Word definitions for ground squirrel in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The ground squirrels are members of the squirrel family of rodents ( Sciuridae ) which generally live on or in the ground, rather than trees. The term is most often used for the medium-sized ground squirrels, as the larger ones are more commonly known as ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The ground squirrel is another mammal that has adopted the practice of throwing things - primarily at its main predators, snakes.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. small striped semiterrestrial eastern American squirrel with cheek pouches [syn: eastern chipmunk , hackee , striped squirrel , Tamias striatus ] any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops [syn: gopher , spermophile ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (&lit ground squirrel) 2 Any of a number of medium-sized squirrel-like borrowing rodents of the tribe (taxlink Marmotini tribe noshow=1) (i.e., excluding the smaller chipmunks and the larger marmots and prairie dogs). 3 Any of the squirrel-like borrowing ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chipmunk \Chip"munk`\, n. [Indian name.] (Zo["o]l.) A squirrel-like animal of the genus Tamias , sometimes called the striped squirrel , chipping squirrel , ground squirrel , hackee . The common species of the United States is the Tamias striatus . [Written ...

Usage examples of ground squirrel.

And Jerry, comprehending the anger, though not its cause, stopped in his digging for a ground squirrel and looked up with a growl among the trees.

A fleeting moment of guilt stopped her as she remembered the ground squirrel.

She glanced around at the young fiend who crouched and poked a stick into a ground squirrel's hole.

A little farther, O'Neill identified a squadron of birds pursuing a ground squirrel.

Light enough, anyway, for me to see that the shrub behind which I had sat hunched all night was only a wizened, nearly leafless huixachi, which would not adequately have hidden a ground squirrel.

His partner returns with a babbled story about swirling leaves, melting trees, the hind parts of a ground squirrel sticking out of solid once-dirt, and of a man lost to the astonishing explosion of a nearby bush, wood turned to sharp-edged metallic shrapnel.

In places the grass was growing already, and ground squirrel ran and foraged busily.

I fear that they ask of me the strength of a fomorian giant, the speed of a frightened deer, the wariness of a ground squirrel, and the calm and wisdom of a centuries-old elf.