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ground squirrel

n.

Any of several burrowing or terrestrial squirrels of the genus Citellus or Spermophilus, including many species that hibernate during the winter.

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ground squirrel

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any burrowing sciurine rodent of the genus Citellus and related genera, resembling chipmunks and occurring in North America, E Europe, and Asia Also called gopher

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Noun	1.	ground squirrel - small striped semiterrestrial eastern American squirrel with cheek pouches eastern chipmunk, hackee, striped squirrel, Tamias striatus squirrel - a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail genus Tamias, Tamias - chipmunks of eastern North America
	2.	ground squirrel - any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops spermophile, gopher squirrel - a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail Citellus, genus Citellus, genus Spermophilus, Spermophilus - typical ground squirrels antelope chipmunk, antelope squirrel, Citellus leucurus, whitetail antelope squirrel - small ground squirrel of western United States Citellus lateralis, mantled ground squirrel - common black-striped reddish-brown ground squirrel of western North America; resembles a large chipmunk Citellus citellus, souslik, suslik - rather large central Eurasian ground squirrel Citellus richardsoni, flickertail, Richardson ground squirrel - of sagebrush and grassland areas of western United States and Canada Citellus variegatus, rock squirrel - large grey ground squirrel of rocky areas of the southwestern United States Arctic ground squirrel, Citellus parryi, parka squirrel - large ground squirrel of the North American far north