Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The, prairie-dog of North America, Cynomys ludovicianus. See cut under prairie-dog, and compare second cut under owl.
- n. [Misunderstood by Cooper as a name for the whippoor-will, it was so used by him in his novel “The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish,” and elsewhere.
Wiktionary
- n. US, obsolete The prairie dog.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) The prairie dog.
Etymologies
- From a Native American word which was an onomatopoeic representation of the animals' cry. (Wiktionary)
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