"ground squirrel" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: ground squirrels [plural]
Head templates: {{en-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). Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (lifeform): Squirrels Hyponyms (medium-sized rodent of Marmotini): suslik Hyponyms (squirrel-like borrowing rodent of Marmotini or Xerini): groundhog, chipmunk, marmot, prairie dog, suslik Translations (Spermophilus): суек (suek) [masculine] (Bulgarian), лалугер (laluger) [masculine] (Bulgarian), ürge (Hungarian), suslikka (Ingrian), сто́болки (stóbolki) [feminine, plural] (Macedonian), muck-quissah (Nanticoke), کلاوو (kalâvu) (Persian), suseł [masculine] (Polish), су́слики (súsliki) (Russian), yer sincabı (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-ground_squirrel-en-noun-aNq2o7WW Disambiguation of Squirrels: 59 41 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 59 41 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 76 24 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 70 30 Disambiguation of 'medium-sized rodent of Marmotini': 91 9 Disambiguation of 'squirrel-like borrowing rodent of Marmotini or Xerini': 71 29 Disambiguation of 'Spermophilus': 90 10
  2. Any of the other squirrel-like borrowing rodents of the subfamily Marmotinae. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-ground_squirrel-en-noun-JucuMGCo
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: African ground squirrel, Arctic ground squirrel, Barbary ground squirrel (taxonomic: Atlantoxerus getulus), Belding's ground squirrel, bristly ground squirrel (taxonomic: Xerus setosus), California ground squirrel (taxonomic: Otospermophilus beecheyi), Cape ground squirrel, Columbian ground squirrel, four-striped ground squirrel (taxonomic: Lariscus hosei), golden-mantled ground squirrel (taxonomic: Callospermophilus lateralis), gray ground squirrel, long-clawed ground squirrel (taxonomic: Spermophilopsis leptodactylus), long-tailed ground squirrel (taxonomic: Urocitellus undulatus), mantled ground squirrel (alt: Citellus lateralis), mountain ground squirrel, red-cheeked ground squirrel (taxonomic: Spermophilus erythrogenys), Richardson's ground squirrel, ring-tailed ground squirrel (taxonomic: Notocitellus annulatus), round-tailed ground squirrel (taxonomic: Xerospermophilus tereticaudus), russet ground squirrel, speckled ground squirrel (taxonomic: Spermophilus suslicus), spotted ground squirrel (taxonomic: Xerospermophilus spilosoma), striped ground squirrel, thirteen-lined ground squirrel (taxonomic: Ictidomys tridecemlineatus), three-striped ground squirrel (taxonomic: Lariscus insignis), tufted ground squirrel (taxonomic: Rheithrosciurus macrotis), unstriped ground squirrel (taxonomic: Xerus rutilus), yellow ground squirrel (taxonomic: Spermophilus fulvus)

Inflected forms

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