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ground squirrels

ground squirrels is the plural of ground squirrel.

Meaning of ground squirrel

Noun

ground squirrel (countable and uncountable, plural ground squirrels)

  1. Any of a number of medium-sized squirrel-like burrowing rodents of the tribe Marmotini (i.e., excluding the smaller chipmunks and the larger marmots and prairie dogs).
    • Earely antelopes are seen, but wolves, rabbits, and sundry ground squirrels abound.1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961...
  2. Any of the other squirrel-like burrowing rodents of the subfamily Marmotinae.

Questions about ground squirrels

What is ground squirrels the plural of?
Ground squirrels is the plural of ground squirrel.

Words near ground squirrels in the dictionary

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  10. ground station
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