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Definition of Spruce squirrel
1. Noun. Of northern United States and Canada.
Generic synonyms: Tree Squirrel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spruce Squirrel
Literary usage of Spruce squirrel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"(SPRUCE—SQUIRREL.) maceration in water are used in Canada to stitch together the
birch-bark canoes. It is distinguished from the preceding by its less ..."
2. David Thompson's Narrative of His Explorations in Western America by David Thompson, Joseph Burr Tyrrell (1916)
"The White Men sometimes make ranges of Marten Traps for the length of forty or
fifty 1 spruce squirrel, Sciurus hudsonicus Erxleben. ..."
3. New Mexico, the Land of the Delight Makers: The History of Its Ancient Cliff by George Wharton James (1920)
"It has a few characteristic mammals, the spruce squirrel, pocket gopher, dusky
shrew, and probably others not yet recorded. The breeding birds are little ..."
4. Trailing and Camping in Alaska by Addison Monroe Powell (1909)
"He will follow you to camp and steal everything there except the pack- saddles.
A little spruce squirrel will descend from a tree near you, ..."
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