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spermophile


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Spermophile  \Sper"mo*phile\,  n.  [Gr.  spe`rma  a  seed  +  fi`los 
  loving,  fond.]  (Zo["o]l.) 
  Any  ground  squirrel  of  the  genus  {Spermophilus};  a  gopher. 
  See  Illust.  under  {Gopher}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  spermophile 
  n  :  any  of  various  terrestrial  burrowing  rodents  of  Old  and  New 
  Worlds;  often  destroy  crops  [syn:  {ground  squirrel},  {gopher}] 




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