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- noun Plural form of
spermophile .
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Examples
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I click the link and learn that it's a family of large rodents—squirrels, chipmunks, marmots, and, uh, spermophiles.
Diary of a Self-Help Dropout: Flirting With the 4-Hour Workweek 2008
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I click the link and learn that it's a family of large rodents—squirrels, chipmunks, marmots, and, uh, spermophiles.
Diary of a Self-Help Dropout: Flirting With the 4-Hour Workweek Chris Hardwick 2008
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Thousands of bushels of grain are eaten or spoiled by small mammals, such as mice, rats, and spermophiles or gophers.
Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Girl Scouts of the United States of America 1918
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The larger spermophiles that live near the spring and keep awake to work all day, come and go at no particular hour, drinking sparingly.
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The larger spermophiles that live near the spring and keep awake to work all day, come and go at no particular hour, drinking sparingly.
The Land of Little Rain Mary Hunter Austin 1901
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Then she brought in young rabbits, chipmunks and thirteen-lined spermophiles, and once she came in, quite exhausted, half dragging and half carrying a big, fat pocket gopher.
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895
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After they were able to leave their nest and play, she went out hunting and brought in many kinds of birds and squirrels for them, mostly ground squirrels (spermophiles), called "gophers" in Wisconsin.
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth John Muir 1876
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These are the spermophiles, and some species of these have more capacious pouches than others.
Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850
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These are the spermophiles, and some species of these have more capacious pouches than others.
The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North Mayne Reid 1850
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They are all _marmots_, that is what they are; and why confound the study of them by calling them spermophiles and arctomys, and such-like hard names? "
The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North Mayne Reid 1850
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