squirrel vs chipmunk
Definitions
noun
- the fur of a squirrel
- a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail
Examples
Invade some butternut or hickory grove on a frosty October morning, and hear the red squirrel beat the "juba" on a horizontal branch.
I was standing in some kind of wooded area and looking around Probably trying to find any distraction to keep me from going for my lecture and I did eventually find that tap-dancing squirrel but that's a story for another post and then somehow bits and pieces began to hit me.
So I hied myself downtown to a famous pet shop named Trefflich's, where there was an entire floor filled with chattering squirrel monkeys.
Definitions
noun
- a burrowing ground squirrel of western America and Asia; has cheek pouches and a light and dark stripe running down the body
Examples
Female chipmunks are in estrus for 1 day a year in late April or early May.
Does that mean that a man is a better machine for running than a quail, or a chipmunk or mouse?
He smells every starling and chipmunk and fox, every lichen and fern and touch-me-not bursting up through dead leaves on his trail.
