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Tree squirrel   /tri skwˈərəl/   Listen
Tree squirrel

noun
1.
Any typical arboreal squirrel.






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"Tree squirrel" Quotes from Famous Books



... forth; grasses moved and brush-clumps rustled; blood was hot and savage eyes were shot with fire. The mink, with unspeakable savagery, took the trail of a snow-shoe rabbit beside the river-bed; a lynx with pale, green, luminous eyes began his stalk of a tree squirrel, and various of Fenris' fellows—pack brothers except for his own relations with men—sang a song that was old when the mountains were new as they raced, black in silhouette against the paling ...
— The Sky Line of Spruce • Edison Marshall

... doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is, that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury. Every species of tree squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying,—at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height. The so-called flying squirrel does this the most perfectly. It opens its furry vestments, ...
— The Writings of John Burroughs • John Burroughs



Words linked to "Tree squirrel" :   Sciurus, spruce squirrel, Tamiasciurus douglasi, eastern grey squirrel, fox squirrel, squirrel, Sciurus hudsonicus, Sciurus vulgaris, American red squirrel, red squirrel, chickeree, cat squirrel, black squirrel, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus, Douglas squirrel, Sciurus niger, eastern gray squirrel, Sciurus griseus, Sciurus carolinensis, western gray squirrel, western grey squirrel, eastern fox squirrel, genus Sciurus



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