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The word "squirrel" means "shadow tail," from the Greek word for squirrel, skiouros - skia, shadow, and oura, tail.

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  1. noun An area that is not or is only partially irradiated or illuminated because of the interception of radiation by an opaque object between the area and the source of radiation.
  2. noun The rough image cast by an object blocking rays of illumination. See Synonyms at shade.
  3. noun An imperfect imitation or copy.
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  • Tell me, does Cyng Arthur plan to make war on the Anglish folk I wondered if my shadow was as naked as my body in the tree, but this was not so; I wore my blue dress and silver Circle-Cross and they were brighter than anything else in that land. —  Asimov's Science Fiction, April 2002
  • But if a shadow is a thing, I suppose it can be stolen. —  FSF,October2007
  • His vision cleared at last, and he saw that the shadow was a Far-Beyonder with a spear buried in his chest. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#215
  • Once in the jungle, the slayer ran as if his shadow were a devil. —  032 - Dust of Death
  • As I fell the only thing that cast a shadow was my hand, when I held it in front of my face. —  Challenging Destiny #17
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darkness ·  shade ·  cloud ·  light ·  shape ·  wave ·  image ·  sound ·  face ·  wall ·  forest ·  sight

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shadow:   Shadowed ·  shadowing ·  shadows ·  shadowed
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  1. Middle English, from Old English sceaduwe, oblique case of sceadu, shade, shadow.

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  1. Early modern English also shaddow, shadoe; from Middle English schadowe, schadewe, shadwe, schadue, from Anglo-Saxon sceadu, sceado (genitive sceadwe, sceade), feminine (also scead (genitive sceades, scedes), neuter), = Old Saxon skado = Middle Dutch schaeduwe, schaedue, schaede, Dutch schaduw = Middle Low German schaduwe, schadewe, schede = Old High German scato, Middle High German schate, German schatten = Gothic (Moesogothic) skadus, shadow, shade, = Old Irish scath, Irish sgath, Gaelic sgath, shade, shadow, shelter (cf. Old Irish scāil, shadow), perhaps = Greek σκότος (also σκοτία), darkness, gloom, from √ ska, cover; perhaps akin also to Greek σκιά, shade, shadow, σκηνή, a tent (later English scene), Sanskrit chhāyā, shade, etc. Hence the later form shade, q. v.
  2. from Middle English shadwen, schadowen, schadewen (Kentish ssedwi), from Anglo-Saxon sceadwian, scadewian = Old Saxon skadoian, skadowan = Dutch schaduwen = Old Low German scadowan = Old High German scatewen, Middle High German schatewen, German überschatten = Gothic (Moesogothic) skadwjan (in comp. ufar-skadwjan, overshadow); from the noun. Cf. shade, v.
 

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