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[edit]Noun
[edit]ground squirrel (countable and uncountable, plural ground squirrels)
- 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).
- 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 24:
- Earely antelopes are seen, but wolves, rabbits, and sundry ground squirrels abound.
- 1987, Peter Alden, Fiona Reid, Mammals, Peterson Field Guide Color-in Books, page 21:
- Many ground squirrels sit up and look like prairie dogs, but a ground squirrel can be recognized by its longer face and tall.
- 2003, University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, Integrated Pest Management for Walnuts, UCANR Publication 3270, page 23,
- In some areas, ground squirrels may present a potential health problem because they carry ectoparasites that may transmit diseases such as bubonic plague to humans.
- The adult California ground squirrel has a head and body 9 to 11 inches (23-28 cm) long and a somewhat bushy tail that is about as long as the body.
- 2003, Lourdes Rugge, Carl G. Thelander, K. Shawn Smallwood, Bird Risk Behaviors and Fatalities at the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area, page 23:
- Pocket gophers appear to be abundant in the APWRA on both sides of Altamont Pass Road, whereas ground squirrels appear to be abundant only on the north side.
- Any of the other squirrel-like borrowing rodents of the subfamily Marmotinae.
Hyponyms
[edit]- (medium-sized rodent of Marmotini): suslik
- (squirrel-like borrowing rodent of Marmotini or Xerini): groundhog, chipmunk, marmot, prairie dog, suslik
Derived terms
[edit]- African ground squirrel
- Arctic ground squirrel
- Barbary ground squirrel (Atlantoxerus getulus)
- Belding's ground squirrel
- bristly ground squirrel (Xerus setosus)
- California ground squirrel (Otospermophilus beecheyi)
- Cape ground squirrel
- Columbian ground squirrel
- four-striped ground squirrel (Lariscus hosei)
- golden-mantled ground squirrel (Callospermophilus lateralis)
- gray ground squirrel
- long-clawed ground squirrel (Spermophilopsis leptodactylus)
- long-tailed ground squirrel (Urocitellus undulatus)
- mantled ground squirrel (Citellus lateralis)
- mountain ground squirrel
- red-cheeked ground squirrel (Spermophilus erythrogenys)
- Richardson's ground squirrel
- ring-tailed ground squirrel (Notocitellus annulatus)
- round-tailed ground squirrel (Xerospermophilus tereticaudus)
- russet ground squirrel
- speckled ground squirrel (Spermophilus suslicus)
- spotted ground squirrel (Xerospermophilus spilosoma)
- striped ground squirrel
- thirteen-lined ground squirrel (Ictidomys tridecemlineatus)
- three-striped ground squirrel (Lariscus insignis)
- tufted ground squirrel (Rheithrosciurus macrotis)
- unstriped ground squirrel (Xerus rutilus)
- yellow ground squirrel (Spermophilus fulvus)
Translations
[edit]Spermophilus
References
[edit]- “ground squirrel”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.