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marmot
/ˈmɑɹ.mət/
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What does marmot mean?
noun
- Any of several large ground-dwelling rodents of the genera Marmota and Cynomys in the squirrel family.
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To dream of seeing a marmot, denotes that sly enemies are approaching you in the shape of fair women.
The Louisiana Marmot, improperly called Prairie dog, is about sixteen inches long, and lives in extended villages or excavations surmounted by mounds.
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Mr. Anderson was inclined to think that it is the animal which is described by Mr. Pennant, under the name of the casan marmot.
The northern animals include the following: Alpine hare, musk-sheep, glutton, reindeer, arctic fox, lemming, tailless hare, marmot, spermophile, ibex, snowy vole, chamois.
At that moment the woodchuck discovers his danger, and, seeing that it is a race for life, leaps as I never saw marmot leap before.