Ground Squirrel Definition

noun
Any of various small, burrowing squirrels (esp. genus Spermophilus)
Webster's New World

Any of a number of medium-sized squirrel-like borrowing rodents of the tribe Marmotini (i.e., excluding the smaller chipmunks and the larger marmots and prairie dogs).

Wiktionary

Any of the squirrel-like borrowing rodents of the tribes Marmotini and Xerini.

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Other Word Forms of Ground Squirrel

Noun

Singular:
ground squirrel
Plural:
ground-squirrels

Ground Squirrel Sentence Examples

  • Typical mountain steppe mammals include Altai pika Ochotona alpina, arctic ground squirrel Citellus undulatus and Siberian chipmunk Tamias sibiricus.

  • On one of the faces there was the remains of a ground squirrel nest, with a squirrel skeleton still curled up inside.

  • Its most characteristic animals and birds are the white-tailed jack-rabbit, pallid vole, sage hen, sharp-tailed grouse and greentailed towhee; the large Columbia ground-squirrel (Spermophflus columbianus) is common in that part of the zone which re west of the Rocky Mountains, but east of the Rockies it is replaced by another species (Cynomys) which closely resembles a small prairie dog.

  • With Tamias (sometimes split into Tamias and Eutamias) we reach the North American striped groundsquirrels, or chipmunks, well characterized by the large internal cheek-pouches, with one outlying species in Northern Asia and Europe (see GROUND-Squirrel).

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