Woodchuck

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  • noun. A large burrowing rodent (Marmota monax) of northern and eastern North America, having a short-legged, heavyset body and grizzled brownish fur.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The green woodpecker, Gecinus viridis. See cut under popinjay.
  • noun. In a lathe, a chuck adapted for holding a piece of wood to be operated on.
  • noun. The commonest North American species of marmot, Arctomys monax, a large rodent quadruped of the family Sciuridæ.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A common large North American marmot (Arctomys monax). It is usually reddish brown, more or less grizzled with gray. It makes extensive burrows, and is often injurious to growing crops. Called also ground hog.
  • noun. The yaffle, or green woodpecker.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots. Scientific name: Marmota monax.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. reddish brown North American marmot
    • Word Usage
    "The name woodchuck comes from the Indian legend of "Wojak, the groundhog" considered by them to be their ancestral grandfather."
    cross-reference
    woodchack day  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    marmot  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    beaver  blue jay  chipmunk  chorus-girl  coon  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    groundhog  squeaver  whistlepig  
    variant
    groundhog  
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