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Short-legged rodent
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marmot
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Word definitions for marmot in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And then something happened to disturb the marmots. ▪ Because unlike the marmots, the rats had no resistance to the disease that the fleas carried. ▪ In marmots, large ground-dwelling squirrels, for example, adult males are territorial ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Alpine rodent, c.1600, from French marmotte , from Romansch (Swiss) murmont (assimilated to Old French marmote "monkey"), from Latin murem montis "mountain mouse."
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Marmot is an outdoor clothing and sporting goods company founded in 1974 as Marmot Mountain Works. The company was founded in Grand Junction, Colorado by local resident Tom Boyce and by two University of California, Santa Cruz students, David Huntley and ...
Usage examples of marmot.
One of the cooks, hands now protected with gloves picked one of them up and with juice still squirting out approached Asayaga, who grinned and bowed ritualistically, then knelt down while the cook held the marmot over his head.
The second cook held up his marmot and began to approach Asayaga, but the Tsurani commander said something and pointed towards Dennis.
Finally he leant over and reached into the marmot to pull out a piece of meat.
Finally it looked as if the marmots were ready to burst asunder when suddenly juice and steam started spraying out of holes in the bodies that nature had originally placed in the marmot and which had not been plugged shut.
Travellers and sportsmen often meet with this marmot, and speak of its sitting up in groups, and suddenly disappearing into its burrows.
But the furry marmot that was Robyn of Gwynneth drew farther back in the cave and chattered an angry challenge.
So the monster kept its watch upon the tiny marmot, for sooner or later, the creature would need to emerge and eat.
What could they obtain through individual effort when South Russia was struck with the marmot plague, and all people living on the land, rich and poor, commoners and individualists, had to work with their hands in order to conjure the plague?
It was a place she had hunted willow grouse and ptarmigan, and an assortment of animals from marmot to giant deer, who found the enticing spot of green impossible to resist.
Kingdom hunter came in with two marmots over his shoulder, both of them plump with early winter fat.
Tsurani swept the marmots up and within seconds had them dangling from a tree limb.
Tsurani skinning the marmots finally had the skins completely pulled off and dangling from the rear legs of the giant rodents.
Loud shouts of laughter erupted from the Tsurani as the two marmots were rolled out of the flames.
In that light he could see that she carried two marmots by the tails in one hand.
When naught but bones remained of the marmots, tossed beside the tiny skins, she reached a small waterskin to him to slake his thirst.