ground squirrel

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ground squirrel

noun ground squirrels

  1. countable, uncountable Any of a number of medium-sized squirrel-like burrowing rodents of the tribe Marmotini (i.e., excluding the smaller chipmunks and the larger marmots and prairie dogs). Earely antelopes are seen, but wolves, rabbits, and sundry ground squirrels abound.
  2. countable, uncountable Any of the other squirrel-like burrowing rodents of the subfamily Marmotinae.

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@misc{ground_squirrel_2026,
  title = {ground squirrel},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ground%20squirrel},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}