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definition
A squirrel-like rodent of the genus Tamias, native mainly to North America.
Examples of chipmunks in a Sentence
The sounds of background music with chipmunks singing will play.
It was later recorded by Frank Sinatra and many others from Amy Grant to the Cheetah Girls to Alvin and the Chipmunks.
They wrote of the squirrels and chipmunks, but not about seeing bear and elk and bison.
Alvin and the Chipmunks, Spike Jones, and Tiny Tim are just a few of the artists represented.
However, over the years, it has been covered by artists as diverse as Alvin and the Chipmunks, Cyndi Lauper, and The Vienna Boys' Choir.
There are many Christmas song parodies, ranging from the 1962 Christmas Don't Be Late by Alvin and the Chipmunks, to 12 Pains of Christmas by Weird Al Yankovic, that are very popular each year when Christmastime rolls around.
Alvin and the Chipmunks have become so popular that they have had several albums and movie deals in the past few years.
Currently it includes Shetland ponies, pot-bellied pigs and birds, future additions may include chipmunks and tortoises.
Coyotes are creatures of slinking and stealthy habits, living in burrows in the plains, and hunting in packs at night, when they utter yapping cries and blood-curdling yells as they gallop. Hares ("jack-rabbits"), chipmunks or ground-squirrels, and mice form a large portion of their food; but coyotes also kill the fawns of deer and prongbuck, as well as sage-hens and other kinds of game-birds.
With Tamias (sometimes split into Tamias and Eutamias) we reach the North American striped groundsquirrels, or chipmunks, well characterized by the large internal cheek-pouches, with one outlying species in Northern Asia and Europe (see GROUND-Squirrel).
Dried sunflower seeds are a favorite of mice, chipmunks, squirrels and rats, so be sure to use a tight-fitting lid or else you will have very fat rodents and a very empty container in a few days!