Definition of woodchuck
: a grizzled thickset marmot (Marmota monax) chiefly of Alaska, Canada, and the northeastern U.S. — called also
groundhog
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Others include a Canada goose with severe leg injuries from fishing line, a woodchuck with a large lesion on its hindquarters and an opossum with a frostbitten tail.
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Thistle the Whistlepig previews Groundhog Day Harvey Webster, the museum's wildlife director, told a mostly youthful audience that the common names groundhog, woodchuck and whistlepig all apply to the same rodent species, officially marmota monax.
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Other bills coming before the Senate include measures to help homeowners pay for replacing lead water pipes, shut down a slumlord trick and allow hunters to bag woodchucks.
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Nearly all the giant pumpkins in America are grown by amateur gardeners who toil in backyards after work, hardened by hailstorms and hungry woodchucks.
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The problematic critter around here is a woodchuck that’s been destroying the garden.
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The problem is that eagles and other scavengers eat the guts of deer or the carcasses of coyotes, woodchucks and other game shot by hunters.
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There are eggs in a nest, frogs, a tadpole, deer and lambs and a whole woodchuck family.
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Assembly Bill 323 would allow the hunting and trapping of woodchucks, also known as groundhogs.
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Origin and Etymology of woodchuck
by folk etymology from a word of Algonquian origin; akin to Narragansett ockqutchaun woodchuck
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Definition of woodchuck for English Language Learners
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: a small, furry North American animal that lives in the ground
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