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noun

marmot n.

(Zool.) Any rodent of the genus Marmota (formerly Arctomys) of the subfamily Sciurinae. The common European marmot (Marmota marmotta) is about the size of a rabbit, and inhabits the higher regions of the Alps and Pyrenees. The bobac is another European species. The common American species (Marmota monax) is the woodchuck (also called groundhog), but the name marmot is usually used only for the western variety.

Any one of several species of ground squirrels or gophers of the genus Spermophilus; also, the prairie dog.

Marmot squirrel (Zool.), a ground squirrel or spermophile.

Prairie marmot. See Prairie dog.

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"Marmot" Quotes from Famous Books

... seen—differing from them in its shape and markings, but equally vicious in its appearance and habits. It was the Crotalus tergeminus—found only in barren grounds, such as those inhabited by the prairie-marmot. ...

— The Boy Hunters • Captain Mayne Reid

... that have been a setting for sorrow, haunt the mind. After that day, Eleanor could never hear the hammer of the woodpecker, the lone cry of circling hawk, the whistling of the solitary mountain marmot, without hearing also the thin treble of the Indian pupils breaking and silencing on that funeral hymn till only the mother's voice sang clarion to the end. She heard the low melting trill of the blue bird and ...

— The Freebooters of the Wilderness • Agnes C. Laut

... the borderline of Alaska. I was walking alone through the mountains on my way to Stewart, and wishing to cross the Marmot River, I took advantage of a great, permanent snowslide that had been annually added to by avalanches from the snow-capped glaciers. The snowslide not only completely blocked the canon, but on either side it reached many hundreds of feet up the almost perpendicular mountains, ...

— The Drama of the Forests - Romance and Adventure • Arthur Heming

... and day, This Marmot boy from far away. When winter comes then in he creeps, And there until the ...

— Animal Children - The Friends of the Forest and the Plain • Edith Brown Kirkwood

... no shaking of leaves in the wind, nor of grass beside the stream,—no motion but their own mortal shivering, the deathful crumbling of atom from atom in their corrupting stones; knowing no sound of living voice or living tread, cheered neither by the kid's bleat nor the marmot's cry; haunted only by uninterrupted echoes from far off, wandering hither and thither among their walls, unable to escape, and by the hiss of angry torrents, and sometimes the shriek of a bird that flits near the face of them, and sweeps ...

— Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) • John Ruskin

Words linked to "Marmot" : Marmota, rockchuck, Marmota monax, Marmota flaviventris, whistling marmot, Marmota caligata, gnawer, genus Marmota, groundhog, rodent