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Meanings of chipmunk in English

Any squirrel of the genus Tamias.

Group of small squirrels found mainly in North America.

Synonyms
Examples for "ground squirrel"
Examples for "ground squirrel"
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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
1
Once a little striped squirrel glided past him, and mounted a high tree.
Wreaths of Friendship: A Gift for the Young
2
The thirteen striped squirrel is also common.
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian ...
3
This last retreat, however, was not often sought, as the striped squirrel is not fond of trees.
Frank and Fanny
4
Frank and Fanny loved the striped squirrel; but never threw stones at him, or sought to make him a prisoner.
Frank and Fanny
5
Their number was so great that the little striped squirrel, who had attended both councils, was scarcely able to remember them all.
The Magic Speech Flower / or Little Luke and His Animal Friends
Usage of chipmunk in English
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A chipmunk slipped along a grassy ridge and vanished in the undergrowth.
Army Boys on the Firing Line; or, Holding Back the German Drive
2
The kind-hearted chipmunk was sorry to see so much suffering and sorrow.
The Magic Speech Flower / or Little Luke and His Animal Friends
3
I met my wife when we worked together at a chipmunk's funeral.
Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
4
The chipmunk, at the first sinister glare, had skittered away to safety.
The Lady of Big Shanty
5
Nothing like regurgitated rotting chipmunk to give you the start you need!
Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
6
I notice one chipmunk slumped over in the middle of the clearing.
The Hunger Pains
7
She thought of Caleb, his chipmunk cheeks, the blue of his eyes.
The nobodies album
8
She had chipmunk cheeks and laughter lines aplenty round her green-grey eyes.
Long time coming: a novel
9
He cut across the fields like a chipmunk-skippedright over the fences!
A Bicycle of Cathay
10
The poor little chipmunk lay stiffening in the cleft of the rock, forgotten.
The Claim Jumpers: A Romance
11
The writer saw a chipmunk & Joe told him it was an ally.
The new yorker
12
The chipmunk cocked his brown head and seemed to be withholding his opinion.
Betty Gordon in Washington; Or, Strange Adventures in a Great Ci...
13
The match illuminated only a little way and a lone chipmunk darted out.
Chicken Little Jane
14
The two of you must have struggled for hours to bury that chipmunk.
Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
15
A chipmunk frightened me as he flew chattering along a log.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
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Daddy Bunker didn't even see the chipmunk Laddie and his sister had chased.
Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's
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Chipmunk through the time
Chipmunk across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common