Ground-squirrel Synonyms

Small striped semiterrestrial eastern American squirrel with cheek pouches
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. eastern chipmunk
  2. hackee
  3. striped squirrel
  4. Tamias striatus
Any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. gopher
  2. spermophile

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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