Word Finder - squirrel

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Any of the rodents of the family Sciuridae distinguished by their large bushy tail.

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A person, usually a freezoner, who applies L. Ron Hubbard's technology in a heterodox manner.

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One of the small rollers of a carding machine which work with the large cylinder.

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To store in a secretive manner, to hide something for future use

What did she have that a squirrel would eat?

The grey squirrel is plentiful in wooded districts.

Several of the species are considerably larger than an ordinary squirrel.

The scheme will also be able to monitor the rate of gray incursion into red squirrel areas.

You need to have mojo meet a sock squirrel!

Books gave us recipes from the wild, like squirrel tail soup and rook pie.

Just do n't encourage them into the garden by hanging out non squirrel proof bird feeders.

Will you be hunting small animals like squirrel or rabbits or will you be aiming for deer?

Other unique features included flower, butterfly and even squirrel cutouts.

Tweens especially dig the toilet humor the show contains plenty of, as well as the random characters and storylines involving a squirrel living underwater with a scuba mask, and an emotionally fragile starfish named Patrick.

You just might get the best photo you've ever had while your dog focuses intently on a squirrel.

She has a really bushy tail similar to that of a squirrel!

Local Action Since the early 1990's, regional campaigns to prevent the extinction of red squirrel in Northern England have been in operation.

This fact sheet includes the construction and use of bat boxes, hedgehog homes, red squirrel feeding hoppers and bumblebee homes.

New peanuts & some seeds put out today Only saw one red squirrel myself the whole time.

The species without a parachute constitutes the genus Zenkerella, and looks very like an ordinary squirrel (see Rodentia).

You may also see gray squirrels scampering up the trees, but the red squirrel is extinct here.

But I scorn to take advantage of such a squirrel.

Squirrel Monkeys - The seven squirrel monkeys love their new enclosure.

He laid the sleeping squirrel on the bench, listened, then instinctively stood up and walked to the thicket 's edge.

The squirrel ran up the bough of the tree in an attempt to reach the cluster of acorns.

He was off on a "squirrel mission", but we started hitting the bowls and calling "At a boy Cappy!"

You can use a bone shaped cutter if you can find one (I happen to have a squirrel shaped cutter that I found in an arts and crafts store).

The game starts with our hero, Conker the squirrel, binge drinking with his buddies at the bar.

Of course, anybody who's actually tried to stumble home from the bar at one in the morning to break off a piece of squirrel tail knows that getting from point A to point B is never that easy.

Animal lovers might like to make a bird or squirrel feeder to place outside in the winter.

The only thing more touching than the popular holiday song featured on the card is the delightful squirrel running around your computer screen collecting jingle bells like they were acorns.

The snow seems to trap me, as it does with the small squirrel I am watching from my window.

They sat in comfortable silence, watching a couple of squirrel's frolic in the warm spring sun.

An occasional sharp high bark soon revealed the source as a little gray squirrel.

The Asiatic elephant; the seladang, a bison of a larger type than the Indian gaur; two varieties of rhinoceros; the honey bear (bruang), the tapir, the sambhur (rusa); the speckled deer (kijang), three varieties of mouse-deer (napoh, plandok and kanchil); the gibbon (ungka or wawa'), the siamang, another species of anthropoid ape, the brok or coco-nut monkey, so called because it is trained by the Malays to gather the nuts from the coco-nut trees, the lotong, kra, and at least twenty other kinds of monkey; the binturong (arctictis binturong), the lemur; the Asiatic tiger, the black panther, the leopard, the large wild cat (harimau akar), several varieties of jungle cat; the wild boar, the wild dog; the flying squirrel,.

Among the mammals are the opossum, raccoon, star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata), grey fox and fox squirrel.

Only one species of hare is found in Brazil, the Lepus brasiliensis, and but one also of the squirrel (Scyurus).

There is also a great seasonal change in appearance and colour in this squirrel, owing to the ears losing their tufts of hair and to the bleaching of the tail.

The pairing time of the squirrel is from February to April; and after a period of gestation of about thirty days the female brings forth from three to nine young.

Among its characteristic mammals and birds are the lynx, marten, porcupine, northern red squirrel, Beldings and Kennicotts ground squirrels, varyin and snowshoe rabbits, northern jumping mouse, white-throate sparrow, Blackburnian warbler, Audubon.

The back of the Russian squirrel has an even close fur varying from a clear bluish-grey to a reddishbrown, the bellies in the former being of a flat quality and white, in the latter yellowish.

In Weissenfels, near Leipzig, the dressing of Russian grey squirrel and the making it into linings is a gigantic industry, and is the principal support of the place.

Few other rodents have been designedly naturalized, but the North American grey squirrel (Sciurus cinereus) appears to be established as a wild animal in Woburn Park, Bedfordshire, England, and may probably spread thence.

The porcupine, the squirrel, the civet cat, the ichneumon and the otter are common.

Rather smaller than a squirrel, with dusky brown fur, the tarsier has immense eyes, large ears, a long thin tail, tufted at the end, a greatly elongated tarsal portion of the foot, and disk-like adhesive surfaces on the fingers, which doubtless assist the animal in maintaining its position on the boughs.

The wild animals include the elephant, still found in large numbers, the leopard, panther, chimpanzee, grey monkeys, antelope of various kinds, the buffalo, wild hog, bush goat, bush pig, sloth, civet and squirrel.

The only facts in natural history which appear even indirectly to countenance the flotation theory are the presence of a swimming bladder in some fishes, and the existence of membranous expansions or pseudowings in certain animals, such as the flying fish, flying dragon and flying squirrel.

The black bear, wolf, catamount, wolverine, wild cat, fox, beaver, racoon, marten, sable, woodchuck, skunk, otter, mink, rabbit and squirrel are also found.

The speculations as to primitive man connected with these stories diverted the British public, headed by Dr Johnson, who said that Monboddo was " as jealous of his tail as a squirrel."

There are deer in the forests and on the open savannahs, the rabbit and squirrel are to be seen on the eastern slopes of the Andes, and partly amphibious rodents, the "capybara" (Hydrochoerus) and "guagua" (Coelogenys subniger), are very numerous along the wooded watercourses.

Fauna and Flora.-Of wild animals the most characteristic are the black bear, puma, prairie wolf, timber wolf, fox, deer, antelope, squirrel, rabbit and prairie dog.

The species, Spermophilus (or Citillus) citillus, is rather smaller than an ordinary squirrel, with minute ears, and the tail reduced to a stump of less than an inch in length.

In this rank he served twice on the North American station as captain of the "Scarborough" and the "Squirrel" from 1724 to 1730 and from 1733 to 1735.

White not only notes the homes and ways, the times and seasons, of plants and animals - comparing, for instance, the different ways in which the squirrel, the fieldmouse and the nuthatch eat their hazel-nuts - or watches the migrations of birds, which were then only beginning to be properly recorded or understood, but he knows more than any other observer until Charles Darwin about the habits and the usefulness of the earthworms, and is certain that plants distil dew and do not merely condense it.