Wiktionary
n. 1 ''http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sciurus%20griseus'', a species of squirrel, found along the western coast of the United States and Canada, the western gray squirrel. 2 ''http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sciurus%20carolinensis'', a species of squirrel, found in the eastern and midwestern United States and Canada, and western Europe, eastern gray squirrel.
Wikipedia
Gray squirrel or grey squirrel may refer to several species of squirrel indigenous to North America:
- The eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), from the eastern United States and southeastern Canada; introduced into Britain, Ireland, western North America, Italy, and South Africa
- The western gray squirrel (Sciurus griseus), from the western United States
- The Arizona gray squirrel (Sciurus arizonensis), from the southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico
- The Mexican gray squirrel (Sciurus aureogaster), from southern Mexico and Guatemala; introduced into the Florida Keys
Usage examples of "gray squirrel".
As if to answer her question, a large gray squirrel not six inches away from Peez's feet sat up on its haunches and set off a long stream of loud, chittering complaints.
Our guns are scarcely of any service, for there is no living creature in these mountains, except a few small pheasants, a small species of gray squirrel, and a blue bird of the vulture kind, about the size of a turtle-dove, or jay.
Even if they had looked intently the creature's way, its movements were so fluid and graceful -- and always under the cover of pine boughs -- that they would have considered the sway of the branches no more than the movement of the wind or a gray squirrel, perhaps.
Even if they had looked intently the creature's way, its movements were so fluid and graceful - and always under the cover of pine boughs - that they would have considered the sway of the branches no more than the movement of the wind or a gray squirrel, perhaps.
Coils and streamers of smoke floated about among the trees, and suddenly a gray squirrel hopped out on a bough and began to chatter wildly.
What connection there can possibly be between a gray squirrel and the Second Jovian War I can't imagine.
A gray squirrel went leaping up a nearby cherry tree, its tail floating behind.