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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of several burrowing or terrestrial squirrels of the genus Citellus or Spermophilus, including many species that hibernate during the winter.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A terrestrial squirrel-like rodent, as one of the genera Spermophilus and Tamias: especially applied in the United States to species of the latter genus, as Tamias striatus, the hackee or chipmunk. In the United States, where there are more kinds of ground-squirrel than in any other part of the world, those of the genus Spermophilus are mostly called gophers, by confusion with the entirely different animals of the genera Geomys and Thomomys. See chipmunk, gopher, and spermophile.
  2. n. An African squirrel of the genus Xerus. Sclater.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Any of various squirrel-like borrowing rodents.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) Any species of the African genus Xerus, allied to Tamias.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops
  2. n. small striped semiterrestrial eastern American squirrel with cheek pouches

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  1. mantled ground squirrel
  2. suslik
  3. rock squirrel
  4. flickertail
  5. whitetail antelope squirrel
  1. parka squirrel
  2. souslik
  3. antelope chipmunk
  4. antelope squirrel
  5. arctic ground squirrel
  1. citellus citellus
  2. citellus lateralis
  3. citellus leucurus
  4. citellus parryi
  5. citellus variegatus
  1. chipmunk
  2. tree-squirrel
  3. squirrel
  4. marmot squirrel
  5. rock-badger
  1. sibsib
  2. hackee
  3. Richardson's ground squirrel
  4. spermophile
  5. prairie squirrel
  1. arctomyinæ
  2. prairie-squirrel
  3. thirteen-lined

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  • milosrdenstvi Is not the mantled ground squirrel not unlike the mounted liger? Oct 28, 2011

  • blafferty I nominate uselessness to do sound effects. Oct 26, 2011

  • fbharjo Since it is Eichhörnchen, is it de capo? Oct 25, 2011

  • bilby We need a list of Madeupical Classical Music. Perhaps ruzuzu might do it when she's stopped all the rucking. Oct 25, 2011

  • sionnach Mmmmm. Delicious Eichhörnchen. Oct 25, 2011

  • ruzuzu My favorite is Variatio 30. Quodlibet. a 1 Clav., the famous quodlibet of "Ich bin solang nicht bei dir g'west, ruck her, ruck her" and "Kraut und Rüben haben mich vertrieben, hätt mein' Mutter Eichhörnchen gekocht, wär ich länger blieben." Oct 25, 2011

  • sionnach I initially read 'zuzu's comment as "I'm too busy listening to squirrel variations", and I thought to myself, "Bach was even more prolific than I thought". Oct 25, 2011

  • ruzuzu Not it! (I'm too busy listing squirrel variations.) Oct 25, 2011

  • fbharjo Who is going to carry on (carrion) the mantled ground squirrel? Oct 25, 2011

  • sionnach This page is in dire need of sound effects! Any volunteers? Oct 25, 2011

  • ruzuzu My grandfather has eaten squirrels and possums and raccoons and rabbits and mallards and iguanas and moose (and endless moo-cows). He draws the line at muskrat, however. Oct 25, 2011

  • blafferty In my ESL group of Hmong kindergarteners, we were going around the table and practicing finishing the sentence "I like to eat ____." (What do you like to eat, Pajoua? I like to eat pizza!) and one of them said squirrels. No, he was quite serious. He added, "Yum." Oct 25, 2011

  • frogapplause Study the sionnach so that you may become one with him. Oct 24, 2011

  • sionnach Study the ground squirrel so that you may become one with him.

    Apparently ground squirrel was an important condiment in "The Elvenbane". Oct 24, 2011

  • ruzuzu Only if it's free-range and mange-free.

    I have standards. Oct 24, 2011

  • sionnach Also delicious as a condiment. Why not sprinkle some liberally over your next salad? Oct 24, 2011

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