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Definition of Fox squirrel
1. Noun. Exceptionally large arboreal squirrel of eastern United States.
Generic synonyms: Tree Squirrel
Group relationships: Genus Sciurus, Sciurus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fox Squirrel
Literary usage of Fox squirrel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Animals: A Popular Guide to the Mammals of North America North of by Witmer Stone, William Everett Cram (1902)
"A full-grown fox squirrel, owing to his size and strength, has probably little
to fear from ... Varieties of the fox squirrel 1. Northern fox squirrel. ..."
2. Army Life of an Illinois Soldier: Including a Day by Day Record of Sherman's by Charles Wright Wills (1906)
"He is larger than any fox squirrel I ever saw. Five miles from James' Point, ...
fox squirrel ..."
3. List of North American Land Mammals in the United States National Museum, 1911 by Gerrit Smith Miller, United States National Museum (1912)
"US Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (1884), p. 595. 1885. TYPE LOCALITY.—Probably southern South
Carolina. (The name is based on Catesby's black fox squirrel.) RANGE. ..."
4. American Animals: A Popular Guide to the Mammals of North America North of by Witmer Stone, William Everett Cram (1902)
"A full-grown fox squirrel, owing to his size and strength, has probably little
to fear from ... Varieties of the fox squirrel 1. Northern fox squirrel. ..."
5. Lake Maxinkuckee: A Physical and Biological Survey by Barton Warren Evermann, Howard Walton Clark (1920)
"In the region with which the present paper deals the fox squirrel was very rare
... The fox squirrel prefers the open woods and is rarely seen in heavy, ..."
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