Crossword clues for marmot
marmot
- Bushy-tailed rodent
- Woodchuck's kin
- Woodchuck of the western U.S
- Vancouver Island _______
- Stocky burrowing rodent
- Short-legged rodent
- Rodent in the Rockies
- Rodent in a burrow
- Outdoor clothing brand
- Groundhog, e.g
- Critter in the same family as chipmunks and squirrels
- Bushy-tailed burrower
- Big, bushy-tailed squirrel
- Animal whose name means "mountain mouse"
- Animal in the squirrel family
- Rockies rodent
- Burrower with a bushy tail
- Woodchuck, e.g.
- Rocky Mountains rodent
- Stocky coarse-furred burrowing rodent with a short bushy tail found throughout the northern hemisphere
- Hibernates in winter
- Burrowing rodent
- 37-Down, e.g.
- Bushy-tailed animal
- Woodchuck, e.g
- Limb inserted into upset male animal
- Burrowing critter
- Ground squirrel
- Hibernating rodent
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
marmot \mar"mot\ (m[aum]r"m[o^]t; 277), n. [It. marmotta, marmotto, prob. fr. L. mus montanus, or mus montis, lit., mountain mouse or rat. See Mountain, and Mouse.]
(Zo["o]l.) Any rodent of the genus Marmota (formerly Arctomys) of the subfamily Sciurinae. The common European marmot ( Marmota marmotta) is about the size of a rabbit, and inhabits the higher regions of the Alps and Pyrenees. The bobac is another European species. The common American species ( Marmota monax) is the woodchuck (also called groundhog), but the name marmot is usually used only for the western variety.
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Any one of several species of ground squirrels or gophers of the genus Spermophilus; also, the prairie dog.
Marmot squirrel (Zo["o]l.), a ground squirrel or spermophile.
Prairie marmot. See Prairie dog.
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."
Wiktionary
n. Any of several large ground-dwelling rodents of the genera ''Marmota'' and (taxlink Cynomys genus noshow=1) in the squirrel family.
WordNet
n. stocky coarse-furred burrowing rodent with a short bushy tail found throughout the northern hemisphere; hibernates in winter
Wikipedia
Marmots are large squirrels in the genus Marmota, of which there are 15 species. Some species live in mountainous areas, such as the Alps, northern Apennines, Carpathians, Tatras, and Pyrenees in Europe and northwestern Asia; the Rocky Mountains, Black Hills, Cascades, Pacific Ranges, and Sierra Nevada in North America; and the Deosai Plateau in Pakistan and Ladakh in India. Other species prefer rough grassland and can be found widely across North America and the Eurasian steppes. The similarly sized, but more social, prairie dog is not classified in the genus Marmota but in the related genus Cynomys.
Marmots typically live in burrows (often within rockpiles, particularly in the case of the yellow-bellied marmot), and hibernate there through the winter. Most marmots are highly social and use loud whistles to communicate with one another, especially when alarmed.
Marmots mainly eat greens and many types of grasses, berries, lichens, mosses, roots, and flowers.
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 Eric Reynolds, who wished to make their own mountaineering equipment. Boyce had secured an order for the climbing apparel used to make the movie Eiger Sanction starring Clint Eastwood. Huntley made the original prototype gear that Boyce was using on the Wolper Productions/ National Geographic documentary Journey to the Outer Limits, about the Colorado Outward Bound School. It was during this documentary production that cameraman Mike Hoover, who later worked on Eiger Sanction, saw the equipment that Boyce was using during the portion filmed in Peru. Just prior to Christmas 1973 Mike Hover called Boyce and placed the order that led to the formation of the company in Grand Junction.
In 1976, another meeting would change the future of Marmot when Reynolds met Joe Tanner of W. L. Gore & Associates. Within a couple weeks Marmot had sewn prototype sleeping bags using the then-new Gore-Tex fabric for field testing. He and Dave proceeded to spend seven nights in a commercial frozen meat locker comparing bags with and without the Gore-Tex fabric as well as testing the bags under fire sprinklers. They liked what they saw and immediately changed everything in the line to Gore-Tex fabrications.
Today Marmot is globally distributed and part of the Newell Brands. Now based in Rohnert Park, CA, Marmot celebrated its 40th Anniversary in 2014.
A marmot is a member of the genus Marmota.
Marmot may also refer to:
- Marmot, Oregon, United States.
- Marmot (grape), another name for the German wine grape Elbling
- Marmot (company), an outdoor clothing and sporting goods company.
- Sir Michael Marmot (born 1945), British scientist.
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.