单词 | squirrel |
释义 | squirrel (once / 653 pages) n Squirrels are rodents that live in trees and have big, bushy tails. You've probably seen many squirrels in the park eating acorns and seeds. A well-known characteristic of squirrels is gathering nuts and seeds to store for the winter: you can say they squirrel away that food. You can squirrel things away, too, like squirreling away money in your savings account to use later. If you find a great sale on snow boots in the middle of summer, you might take advantage of the bargain and squirrel those boots away for your trip to northern Canada in January. WORD FAMILYsquirrel: squirrels USAGE EXAMPLESA red squirrel sat in the feeder, chewing with gusto. Seattle Times(Dec 28, 2016) There is also a season for the hunting of gray squirrels that ends on that day. Washington Times(Dec 27, 2016) “Security would call to say someone brought us a squirrel.” Washington Post(Dec 21, 2016) 1n a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail Hypo|Hyper tree squirrel any typical arboreal squirrel gopher, ground squirrel, spermophileany of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops Tamias striatus, eastern chipmunk, ground squirrel, hackee, striped squirrelsmall striped semiterrestrial eastern American squirrel with cheek pouches chipmunka burrowing ground squirrel of western America and Asia; has cheek pouches and a light and dark stripe running down the body Eutamius asiaticus, Eutamius sibiricus, baranduki, baronduki, barunduki, burundukiterrestrial Siberian squirrel American flying squirrelNew World flying squirrels Asiatic flying squirrelnocturnal rodent of Asia having furry folds of skin between forelegs and hind legs enabling it to move by gliding leaps Sciurus carolinensis, cat squirrel, eastern gray squirrel, eastern grey squirrelcommon medium-large squirrel of eastern North America; now introduced into England Sciurus griseus, western gray squirrel, western grey squirrellarge grey squirrel of far western areas of United States Sciurus niger, eastern fox squirrel, fox squirrelexceptionally large arboreal squirrel of eastern United States black squirrelfox squirrel or grey squirrel in the black color phase Sciurus vulgaris, cat squirrel, red squirrelcommon reddish-brown squirrel of Europe and parts of Asia American red squirrel, Sciurus hudsonicus, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus, red squirrel, spruce squirrelof northern United States and Canada Douglas squirrel, Tamiasciurus douglasi, chickereefar western United States counterpart of the red squirrel Citellus leucurus, antelope chipmunk, antelope squirrel, whitetail antelope squirrelsmall ground squirrel of western United States Citellus lateralis, mantled ground squirrelcommon black-striped reddish-brown ground squirrel of western North America; resembles a large chipmunk Citellus citellus, souslik, suslikrather large central Eurasian ground squirrel Citellus richardsoni, Richardson ground squirrel, flickertailof sagebrush and grassland areas of western United States and Canada Citellus variegatus, rock squirrellarge grey ground squirrel of rocky areas of the southwestern United States Arctic ground squirrel, Citellus parryi, parka squirrellarge ground squirrel of the North American far north Glaucomys volans, southern flying squirrelsmall large-eyed nocturnal flying squirrel of eastern United States Glaucomys sabrinus, northern flying squirrellarge flying squirrel; chiefly of Canada Petaurista petaurista, flying cat, flying marmot, taguanEast Indian flying squirrel gnawer, rodent relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing 2n the fur of a squirrel Hyper fur, pelt the dressed hairy coat of a mammal |
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