Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various stocky, coarse-furred, burrowing rodents of the genus Marmota, having short legs and ears and short bushy tails and found throughout the Northern Hemisphere.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rodent quadruped of the genus Arctomys; a bear-mouse, ground-hog, or woodchuck.
- noun The Cape cony, Hyrax capensis: a misnomer. Kolbe, Vosmaer, Buffon, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any rodent of the genus Marmota (formerly Arctomys) of the subfamily Sciurinae. The common European marmot (
Marmota marmotta ) is about the size of a rabbit, and inhabits the higher regions of the Alps and Pyrenees. Thebobac is another European species. The common American species (Marmota monax ) is thewoodchuck (also calledgroundhog ), but the namemarmot is usually used only for the western variety. - noun Any one of several species of ground squirrels or gophers of the genus Spermophilus; also, the prairie dog.
- noun (Zoöl.) a ground squirrel or spermophile.
- noun See
Prairie dog .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several large ground-dwelling
rodents of thegenera Marmota and Cynomys in thesquirrel family.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun stocky coarse-furred burrowing rodent with a short bushy tail found throughout the northern hemisphere; hibernates in winter
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Salut, marmotte = Hello, marmot (a marmot is a furry rodent thathibernates) le début de l'après-midi = beginning of the afternoon
Bon Appétit! 2010
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Salut, marmotte = Hello, marmot (a marmot is a furry rodent thathibernates) le début de l'après-midi = beginning of the afternoon
Cafés 2010
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Salut, marmotte = Hello, marmot (a marmot is a furry rodent thathibernates) le début de l'après-midi = beginning of the afternoon
Books 2010
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A crane, for example, shot by Fritz, and an animal which they called a marmot, but which to me seemed much more like a badger.
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Whatever the origin of "marmot" - is it really possible that the Hebrew word marmuta, which means groundhog - a type of marmot - isn't related to the word marmot or marmotte?
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The Vancouver Island marmot is a uniquely Canadian species, found only on Vancouver Island in British Columbia.
Adopt-a-Marmot MJ 2006
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The name marmot comes from French marmotte, from Old French marmotan, marmontaine, from Old Franco-Provençal, from Low Latin mures montani "mountain mouse", from Latin mures monti, from Classical Latin mures alpini "Alps mouse".
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And as for "marmot" -- that began to have quite a fine sound in his ears.
The Tale of Billy Woodchuck Arthur Scott Bailey 1913
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Salut, marmotte = Hello, marmot a marmot is a furry rodent thathibernates
Books 2010
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Salut, marmotte = Hello, marmot a marmot is a furry rodent thathibernates
Bon Appétit! 2010
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