"squirrel" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

A kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail (synset 102357879)
is a type of: gnawer, rodent - relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing
subtypes:
- tree squirrel - any typical arboreal squirrel
- gopher, ground squirrel, spermophile - any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops
- eastern chipmunk, ground squirrel, hackee, striped squirrel, tamias striatus - small striped semiterrestrial eastern American squirrel with cheek pouches
- chipmunk - a burrowing ground squirrel of western America and Asia; has cheek pouches and a light and dark stripe running down the body
- baranduki, baronduki, barunduki, burunduki, eutamius asiaticus, eutamius sibiricus - terrestrial Siberian squirrel
- american flying squirrel - New World flying squirrels
- asiatic flying squirrel - nocturnal rodent of Asia having furry folds of skin between forelegs and hind legs enabling it to move by gliding leaps
belongs to: family sciuridae, sciuridae - a mammal family of true squirrels including: ground squirrels; marmots; chipmunks; flying squirrels; spermophiles
The fur of a squirrel (synset 114790368)
is a type of: fur, pelt - the dressed hairy coat of a mammal