Any of several rodents of North American prairies living in large complex burrows having a barking cry.
1My horse had broken through the burrow of the prairie marmot, and the false step had brought him with violence to the ground.
2The 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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