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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several terrestrial squirrels of the genus Spermophilus of Eurasia and North America, most of which live in burrows and hibernate during the winter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A terrestrial squirrel-like rodent, as one of the genera Spermophilus and Tamias: especially applied in the United States to species of the latter genus, as Tamias striatus, the hackee or chipmunk.
- noun An African squirrel of the genus Xerus. Sclater.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various squirrel-like borrowing
rodents .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops
- noun small striped semiterrestrial eastern American squirrel with cheek pouches
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sionnach commented on the word ground squirrel
Also delicious as a condiment. Why not sprinkle some liberally over your next salad?
October 24, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word ground squirrel
Only if it's free-range and mange-free.
I have standards.
October 24, 2011
sionnach commented on the word ground squirrel
Study the ground squirrel so that you may become one with him.
Apparently ground squirrel was an important condiment in "The Elvenbane".
October 24, 2011
frogapplause commented on the word ground squirrel
Study the sionnach so that you may become one with him.
October 24, 2011
blafferty commented on the word ground squirrel
In my ESL group of Hmong kindergarteners, we were going around the table and practicing finishing the sentence "I like to eat ____." (What do you like to eat, Pajoua? I like to eat pizza!) and one of them said squirrels. No, he was quite serious. He added, "Yum."
October 25, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word ground squirrel
My grandfather has eaten squirrels and possums and raccoons and rabbits and mallards and iguanas and moose (and endless moo-cows). He draws the line at muskrat, however.
October 25, 2011
sionnach commented on the word ground squirrel
This page is in dire need of sound effects! Any volunteers?
October 25, 2011
fbharjo commented on the word ground squirrel
Who is going to carry on (carrion) the mantled ground squirrel?
October 25, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word ground squirrel
Not it! (I'm too busy listing squirrel variations.)
October 25, 2011
sionnach commented on the word ground squirrel
I initially read 'zuzu's comment as "I'm too busy listening to squirrel variations", and I thought to myself, "Bach was even more prolific than I thought".
October 25, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word ground squirrel
My favorite is Variatio 30. Quodlibet. a 1 Clav., the famous quodlibet of "Ich bin solang nicht bei dir g'west, ruck her, ruck her" and "Kraut und Rüben haben mich vertrieben, hätt mein' Mutter Eichhörnchen gekocht, wär ich länger blieben."
October 25, 2011
sionnach commented on the word ground squirrel
Mmmmm. Delicious Eichhörnchen.
October 25, 2011
bilby commented on the word ground squirrel
We need a list of Madeupical Classical Music. Perhaps ruzuzu might do it when she's stopped all the rucking.
October 26, 2011
fbharjo commented on the word ground squirrel
Since it is Eichhörnchen, is it de capo?
October 26, 2011
blafferty commented on the word ground squirrel
I nominate uselessness to do sound effects.
October 26, 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word ground squirrel
Is not the mantled ground squirrel not unlike the mounted liger?
October 29, 2011