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Hibernating sciurid
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woodchuck
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, alteration (influenced by wood (n.)) of Cree (Algonquian) otchek or Ojibwa otchig , "marten," the name subsequently transferred to the groundhog.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. reddish brown North American marmot [syn: groundhog , Marmota monax ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I could hear Kaptan whimper as he pushed the dead woodchuck frantically from him. ▪ I gestured to the remaining woodchuck to crouch. ▪ I was Unca Donald and I had a new junior woodchuck . ▪ Insects, diseases, marauding deer and ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Woodchuck , also known as a groundhog, is a rodent of the family Sciuridae . Woodchuck may also refer to: Woodchuck Draft Cider , a drink The Junior Woodchucks , a boy scouts-like youth organization in Disney's fictional universe A person native-born in ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots, (taxlink Marmota monax species noshow=1).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
groundhog \ground"hog`\, ground hog \ground" hog`\ (ground"h[o^]g`), n. A reddish brown North American burrowing marmot ( Marmota monax ), also called the woodchuck . It hibernates in the winter. Syn: woodchuck, Marmota monax .
Usage examples of woodchuck.
Indian riverbedfor example, the bobac, or Asian marmot, a rodent related to our woodchucks.
But once I used it on a wild pseudo woodchuck that appeared unexpectedly.
Then came the pulsating monotone of the frogs from a far-off pool, the harsh cry of an owl from an old tree that overhung it, the splash of a mink or musquash, and nearer by, the light step of a woodchuck, as he cantered off in his quiet way to his hole in the nearest bank.
You see, I can catch the rabbits and woodchucks and chickens, and carry them up to you.
If we had a little more faith and a few more caverns, or convenient places for making them, we should have hermits in these holes as thick as woodchucks or prairie dogs.
We should be as useless on a trail, or in carrying tidings through the wilderness, as so many woodchucks, did we not soon come to a knowledge of these niceties.
He understood about the books, too - hell, the three of them chummed around together and they cared no more for their summer textbooks than they had for their regular ones, which is to say, they cared for them about as much as a woodchuck cares for tap-dancing.
Another showed Donald Duck's nephews, Huey, Louie, and Dewie, marching off into the wilderness in their Junior Woodchucks coonskin caps.
It digs up the camas roots, wild onions, and an occasional luckless woodchuck or gopher.
We'd bin rompin threw the woods, kullin flours & drivin the woodchuck from his Nativ Lair (so to speak) with long sticks.
A boy and a dog were then left to watch the open hole, while John and his comrades went to the brook and began to dig a canal, to turn the water into the residence of the woodchuck.
As if one were to wear any sort of coat which the tailor might cut out for him, or, gradually leaving off palm-leaf hat or cap of woodchuck skin, complain of hard times because he could not afford to buy him a crown!
I am on the alert for the first signs of spring, to hear the chance note of some arriving bird, or the striped squirrel's chirp, for his stores must be now nearly exhausted, or see the woodchuck venture out of his winter quarters.