spermophile

1. Any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds;
   Often destroy crops (synset 102360743)
   is a type of: squirrel - a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail
   subtypes:

   • antelope chipmunk, antelope squirrel, citellus leucurus, whitetail antelope squirrel - small ground squirrel of western United States
   • citellus lateralis, mantled ground squirrel - common black-striped reddish-brown ground squirrel of western North America; resembles a large chipmunk
   • citellus citellus, souslik, suslik - rather large central Eurasian ground squirrel
   • citellus richardsoni, flickertail, richardson ground squirrel - of sagebrush and grassland areas of western United States and Canada
   • citellus variegatus, rock squirrel - large grey ground squirrel of rocky areas of the southwestern United States
   • arctic ground squirrel, citellus parryi, parka squirrel - large ground squirrel of the North American far north
   belongs to: citellus, genus citellus, genus spermophilus, spermophilus - typical ground squirrels
   same as: gopher, ground squirrel

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