Any of several rodents of North American prairies living in large complex burrows having a barking cry.
1 My horse had broken through the burrow of the prairie marmot , and the false step had brought him with violence to the ground.
2 The prairie marmot and the burrowing owl come into neighbourly contact with the rattlesnake, but the acquaintance does not quite amount to friendship.
3 "They are prairie-dogs," said mamma; "but are sometimes called the 'wish-ton-wish' and ' prairie marmot , ' and sometimes ' prairie marmot squirrel.'
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