| ground squirrel n. Any of several burrowing or terrestrial squirrels of the genus Citellus or Spermophilus, including many species that hibernate during the winter. |
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 pouchessquirrel - 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 cropssquirrel - a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail 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 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 |
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