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genus sciurusnoun	type genus of the sciuridae; typical moderate-sized arboreal squirrels

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genus sciurusnoun	type genus of the sciuridae; typical moderate-sized arboreal squirrels
spnoun	Spanish (language)
red squirrelnoun	Tamiasciurus hudsonicus, the American red squirrel, found in parts of North America.
red-tailed squirrelnoun	A species of tree squirrel native to Central and South America, Sciurus granatensis.
eastern gray squirrelnoun	The typical squirrel of eastern North America, of the species Sciurus carolinensis, invasive elsewhere.
gray squirrelnoun	Sciurus carolinensis, a species of squirrel, found in the eastern and midwestern United States and Canada, and western Europe, eastern gray squirrel.
common squirrel monkeynoun	An arboreal monkey of the species Saimiri sciureus, native to tropical South America.
squirrel monkeynoun	(zoology, primatology) Any of several small New World monkeys, of the genus Saimiri, that live in southern Central America and northern South America.
fox squirrelnoun	Sciurus niger, the largest tree squirrel native to North America.
sorex	The genus Sorex includes many of the common shrews of Eurasia and North America, and contains at least 142 known species and subspecies.
ground squirrelnoun	Any of a number of medium-sized squirrel-like burrowing rodents of the tribe Marmotini (i.e., excluding the smaller chipmunks and the larger marmots and prairie dogs).
pallas's squirrel	Pallas's squirrel (Callosciurus erythraeus), also known as the red-bellied tree squirrel, is a species of squirrel native to China, Taiwan, India, and Southeast Asia.
european ground squirrel	The European ground squirrel (Spermophilus citellus), also known as the European souslik, is a species from the squirrel family, Sciuridae.
sciurini	a tribe that includes about forty species of squirrels,Thorington and Hoffmann, 2005, p. 754 mostly from the Americas.
northern flying squirrel	The northern flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus) is one of three species of the genus Glaucomys, the only flying squirrels found in North America.
abert's squirrelnoun	Sciurus aberti, a tree squirrel endemic to the Rocky Mountains from the United States to Mexico.
marmotnoun	Any of several large ground-dwelling rodents of the genera Marmota and Cynomys in the squirrel family.
golden-mantled ground squirrelnoun	Callospermophilus lateralis, a species of ground squirrel native to western North America.
flying squirrelnoun	Any of 43 species of squirrel-like rodents, which glide from tree to tree:
black-capped squirrel monkey	The black-capped squirrel monkey (Saimiri boliviensis) is a species of New-World monkey native to the upper Amazon basin in Bolivia, western Brazil and eastern Peru.