# ground squirrel

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. 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).
2. Any of the other squirrel-like burrowing rodents of the subfamily Marmotinae.

## Source
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