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ROCK SQUIRREL

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Dictionary entry overview: What does rock squirrel mean?

• ROCK SQUIRREL (noun)
The noun ROCK SQUIRREL has 1 sense:

1. large grey ground squirrel of rocky areas of the southwestern United States

Familiarity information: ROCK SQUIRREL used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• ROCK SQUIRREL (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Large grey ground squirrel of rocky areas of the southwestern United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Citellus variegatus; rock squirrel

Hypernyms ("rock squirrel" is a kind of...):

gopher; ground squirrel; spermophile (any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops)

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