单词 | chipmunk |
释义 | chipmunk /chip"mungk/, n. any of several small, striped, terrestrial squirrels of the genera Tamias, of North America, and Eutamia, of Asia and North America, esp. T. striatus, of eastern North America. [1825-35, Amer.; assimilated var. of earlier chitmunk, appar. < Ojibwa acitamo·n red squirrel, equiv, to acit- headfirst, face-down + derivational elements; so called from the squirrel's manner of descending trees] |
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