Spermophile

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The ground squirrel.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A terrestrial burrowing rodent; ground squirrel
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Any ground squirrel of the genus Spermophilus; a gopher. See Illust. under gopher.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A rodent quadruped of the genus Spermophilus, as a ground-squirrel or suslik, of which there are numerous species in Europe, Asia, and North America. See cuts under suslik and Spermophilus.
  • n. A fringilline bird of the genus Spermophila; a little seed-eater, of which there are numerous Central and South American species. See cut under grassquit.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    squirrel   
    Variant
    gopher   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    gopher    ground squirrel   
     
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