rock squirrel

rock squirrel
noun
large grey ground squirrel of rocky areas of the southwestern United States
• Hypernyms: ↑ground squirrel, ↑gopher, ↑spermophile

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noun
1. : a large ground squirrel (Citellus variegatus grammurus) of western No. America having better developed tail and ears than the more strictly burrowing species
2. : any of several relatively large terrestrial squirrels (genus Sciurotamias or Rupestes) of the rocky uplands of east central Asia

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a large, gray ground squirrel, Spermophilus variegatus, inhabiting rocky areas of the southwestern U.S.
[1850-55]

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rock squirrel,
a large gray or blackish ground squirrel of the southwestern United States and Mexico.

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