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Groundhog

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woodchucknoun(Northern US) A rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots, Marmota monax.
marmota monaxnounreddish brown north american marmot

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woodchucknoun(Northern US) A rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots, Marmota monax.
marmota monaxnounreddish brown north american marmot
marmotnounAny of several large ground-dwelling rodents of the genera Marmota and Cynomys in the squirrel family.
gophernounA small burrowing rodent native to North and Central America, especially in the family Geomyidae (pocket gophers).
marmotanounmarmots
rockchucknounThe yellow-bellied marmot, Marmota flaviventris.
whistling marmotnounA hoary marmot (Marmota caligata).
red squirrelnounTamiasciurus hudsonicus, the American red squirrel, found in parts of North America.
meadow volenounA small rodent (Microtus pennsylvanicus), native to the United States.
field mousenoun(Canada, US) A small vole such as the meadow vole.
gray ground squirrelnounA ground squirrel native to the western US and Baja California (Otospermophilus beecheyi).
common volenounA species of vole (Microtus arvalis).
red antnounThe red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta), native to South America, but broadly invasive.
wood mousenoun(US) The white-footed mouse of America.
common marmosetnounMarmoset, a New World monkey, Callithrix jacchus
whistlernounSomeone or something that whistles, or who plays a whistle as a musical instrument.
rock chucknounAlternative form of rockchuck. [The yellow-bellied marmot, Marmota flaviventris.]
canadian porcupinenounA North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum).
russet ground squirrelnounA ground squirrel of species Spermophilus major, of west central Asia.
cat squirrelnounThe eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis).

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