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from The Century Dictionary.

  • One of two subfamilies into which the squirrel family, Sciuridœ, is divisible, containing the terrestrial as distinguished from the arboreal members of the family, as the marmots or woodchucks, the prairie-dogs, the susliks, the ground-squirrels or spermophiles, etc.

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