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Meanings of ground squirrel in anglès

portuguès
espermófilo
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esquirol de terra

Any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops.

esquirol de terra

Small striped semiterrestrial eastern American squirrel with cheek pouches.

Synonyms
Examples for "gopher"
Examples for "gopher"
1
He sees a future for gopher in applications such as data exchange.
Wired
2
I wonder if even Folke Bernadotte knew who his gopher really was.
Wild Cards IV: Aces Abroad
3
He engaged in leisurely games of pool with stone-getters and gopher men.
Never-Fail Blake
4
He claims his horse stepped in a gopher hole and threw him.
Jim Waring of Sonora-Town; Or, Tang of Life
5
They rolled right through you like a rototiller through a gopher mound.
All You Need Is Kill
1
These are the spermophiles, and some species of these have more capacious pouches than others.
The Young Voyageurs: Boy Hunters in the North
2
He is called Spermophile because that means seed-eater, and he lives largely on seeds, especially on grain.
The Burgess Animal Book for Children
3
He is called the Thirteen-lined Spermophile.
The Burgess Animal Book for Children
4
Seek Seek the Spermophile who lives on the plains of the West and is often called Gopher Squirrel, is the true Ground Squirrel.
The Burgess Animal Book for Children
5
The larger spermophiles that live near the spring and keep awake to work all day, come and go at no particular hour, drinking sparingly.
The Land of Little Rain
Usage of ground squirrel in anglès
1
Harry S. Welby, Taft, Calif.: The ground squirrel is a pest here.
Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 194...
2
Purpose: To provide quantitative information on glucose utilization in cone-dominant ground squirrel retinas.
Pubmed
3
Incidentally we brought the ground squirrel out and set him free.
K
4
How do you tell a ground squirrel from a tree squirrel?
Wired
5
Nurse, you said something about a ground squirrel, and called it a chitmunk.
Lady Mary and Her Nurse; Or, A Peep into the Canadian Forest
6
These guys don't hibernate or burrow like their ground squirrel cousins.
Wired
7
Then the ground squirrel, that lives in the ground, instead of on the trees.
The Summer Holidays: A Story for Children
8
Probably they were trying to root out a ground squirrel, or perhaps a rattlesnake.
Lonesome dove
9
In their despair, they appealed to their kind friend A-bal-ka the little ground squirrel.
The Magic Speech Flower / or Little Luke and His Animal Friends
10
If he was talking about a ground squirrel, he had his facts down cold.
A nose for justice
11
Lactate was the only product detected in the medium bathing the ground squirrel retinas.
Pubmed
12
The rat stopped scant inches from the small ground squirrel.
The adventures of button
13
Houndog spied a ground squirrel in the wood pile and took off at a gallop.
Running scared
14
Argoth winced; it must have stepped into the hole of a fox or ground squirrel.
Servant of a dark god
15
You're too good a man to sit here like a ground squirrel in its hole.
A nose for justice
16
This is the reason why the chipmunk, or ground squirrel, lives near the homes of men.
Algonquin Indian Tales
Translations for ground squirrel
portuguès
espermófilo