Portuguese
cão-da-pradaria 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.'