ground squirrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground squirrels
Senses: examples: text: Earely antelopes are seen, but wolves, rabbits, and sundry ground squirrels abound.
ref: 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, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 24:
text: Many ground squirrels sit up and look like prairie dogs, but a ground squirrel can be recognized by its longer face and tall.
ref: 1987, Peter Alden, Fiona Reid, Mammals, Peterson Field Guide Color-in Books, page 21:
text: 2003, University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, Integrated Pest Management for Walnuts, UCANR Publication 3270, page 23,
In some areas, ground squirrels may present a potential health problem because they carry ectoparasites that may transmit diseases such as bubonic plague to humans.
The adult California ground squirrel has a head and body 9 to 11 inches (23-28 cm) long and a somewhat bushy tail that is about as long as the body.
text: Pocket gophers appear to be abundant in the APWRA on both sides of Altamont Pass Road, whereas ground squirrels appear to be abundant only on the north side.
ref: 2003, Lourdes Rugge, Carl G. Thelander, K. Shawn Smallwood, Bird Risk Behaviors and Fatalities at the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area, page 23:
glosses: 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).
glosses: Any of the other squirrel-like borrowing rodents of the subfamily Marmotinae.
Hyponyms: sense: medium-sized rodent of Marmotini
word: suslik
sense: squirrel-like borrowing rodent of Marmotini or Xerini
word: groundhog
sense: squirrel-like borrowing rodent of Marmotini or Xerini
word: chipmunk
sense: squirrel-like borrowing rodent of Marmotini or Xerini
word: marmot
sense: squirrel-like borrowing rodent of Marmotini or Xerini
word: prairie dog
sense: squirrel-like borrowing rodent of Marmotini or Xerini
word: suslik
Derived terms: taxonomic: Xerini spp.
word: African ground squirrel
taxonomic: Spermophilus spp.
word: Arctic ground squirrel
taxonomic: Atlantoxerus getulus
word: Barbary ground squirrel
taxonomic: Urocitellus beldingi
word: Belding's ground squirrel
taxonomic: Xerus setosus
word: bristly ground squirrel
taxonomic: Otospermophilus beecheyi
word: California ground squirrel
alt: Geosciurus inauris
word: Cape ground squirrel
taxonomic: Urocitellus columbianus
word: Columbian ground squirrel
taxonomic: Lariscus hosei
word: four-striped ground squirrel
taxonomic: Callospermophilus lateralis
word: golden-mantled ground squirrel
word: gray ground squirrel
taxonomic: Spermophilopsis leptodactylus
word: long-clawed ground squirrel
taxonomic: Urocitellus undulatus
word: long-tailed ground squirrel
alt: Citellus lateralis
word: mantled ground squirrel
alt: Geosciurus princeps
word: mountain ground squirrel
taxonomic: Spermophilus erythrogenys
word: red-cheeked ground squirrel
taxonomic: Urocitellus richardsonii
word: Richardson's ground squirrel
taxonomic: Notocitellus annulatus
word: ring-tailed ground squirrel
taxonomic: Xerospermophilus tereticaudus
word: round-tailed ground squirrel
taxonomic: Spermophilus major
word: russet ground squirrel
taxonomic: Spermophilus suslicus
word: speckled ground squirrel
taxonomic: Xerospermophilus spilosoma
word: spotted ground squirrel
word: striped ground squirrel
taxonomic: Ictidomys tridecemlineatus
word: thirteen-lined ground squirrel
taxonomic: Lariscus insignis
word: three-striped ground squirrel
taxonomic: Rheithrosciurus macrotis
word: tufted ground squirrel
taxonomic: Xerus rutilus
word: unstriped ground squirrel
taxonomic: Spermophilus fulvus
word: yellow ground squirrel