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Noun
Any of a number of medium-sized squirrel-like borrowing rodents of the tribe Marmotini (i.e., excluding the smaller chipmunks and the larger marmots and prairie dogs).
Any of the squirrel-like borrowing rodents of the tribes Marmotini and Xerini.
Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see ground, squirrel.