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ground squirrel

9 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. ground squirrel (noun)
  2. African ground squirrel (noun)
  3. bristly ground squirrel (noun)
  4. California ground squirrel (noun)
  5. Columbian ground squirrel (noun)
  6. mantled ground squirrel (noun)
  7. spotted ground squirrel (noun)
  8. thirteen-lined ground squirrel (noun)
  9. striped gopher (noun)

ground squirrel

noun

Definition of GROUND SQUIRREL

: any of various burrowing North American and Eurasian rodents (especially genus Spermophilus) of the squirrel family that often live in colonies especially in open areas (as grasslands) —called also spermophile
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