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Red squirrel

noun

Of northern United States and Canada. Synonyms: American red squirrel, Sciurus hudsonicus, spruce squirrel, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus.

Common reddish-brown squirrel of Europe and parts of Asia. Synonyms: cat squirrel, Sciurus vulgaris.

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"Red squirrel" Quotes from Famous Books

... A red squirrel poised thirty feet above them, leaped, and clung swaying to a sapling-top a dozen yards from the tree he had quitted. Two chickadees upside down uttering liquid undertones, searched busily for insects next their heads. Wilson's warblers, ...

— The Blazed Trail • Stewart Edward White

Words linked to "Red squirrel" : Sciurus hudsonicus, Sciurus, tree squirrel, genus Sciurus