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Definition of Rock squirrel
1. Noun. Large grey ground squirrel of rocky areas of the southwestern United States.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rock Squirrel
Literary usage of Rock squirrel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1909)
"There were then only two Indians left, Hai (a black bird), and Rock-squirrel.
Hai was earning the food, and Rock-squirrel the fire. ..."
2. Ceylon: A General Description of the Island, Historical, Physical by Horatio John Suckling (1876)
"However, there is some reason to doubt that this black squirrel is the same
species, being much larger than the rock squirrel, and is said never to be seen ..."
3. The Mammals of Colorado: An Account of the Several Species Found Within the by Edward Royal Warren (1910)
"This was the Utah rock squirrel. A specimen taken in Baca County, May igth,
contained five embryos. Citellus variegatus Utah. Utah rock squirrel Citellus ..."
4. Science Series by Colorado College (1907)
"Coll. and det. Baker, Arboles, on rock squirrel; coll. Warren, 1909, Colorado
Springs, on rock squirrel, det. ..."
5. The Myxomycetes of Colorado by William Codman Sturgis (1907)
"Coll. and det. Baker, Arboles,';on rock squirrel; coll. Warren, 1909, Colorado
Springs, on rock squirrel, det. ..."
6. Ethnozoology of the Tewa Indians by Junius Henderson, John Peabody Harrington (1914)
"This is the finest squirrel of the region, as large as the rock squirrel, gray
above, white beneath, with long and very bushy tail, its long leaps from tree ..."
7. Ethnozoology of the Tewa Indians by Junius Henderson, John Peabody Harrington (1914)
"... rock squirrel, gray above, white beneath, with long and very bushy tail, its
long leaps from tree to tree never failing to excite the utmost admiration. ..."
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