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Definition of squirrel in English: squirrelnounPlural squirrels ˈskwɪr(ə)lˈskwər(ə)l 1An agile tree-dwelling rodent with a bushy tail, typically feeding on nuts and seeds. 松鼠 Family Sciuridae: several genera, in particular Sciurus, and numerous species Example sentencesExamples - The raccoons made it through the long winter as their nightly raids on our bird feeders attest, and we all know that nothing gets the best of the squirrels and chipmunks!
- The chestnuts nourished the locals and their livestock, provided cash from their sale to big cities by the box car, and fed such game species as bears, deer, squirrels, and turkeys.
- There were squirrels everywhere in the park, with their bushy tails and all, nibbling on chestnuts fallen from the trees.
- Boreal Owls prey on small mammals, including voles, mice, and small squirrels.
- Lynx feed on squirrels, birds and other small prey, but snowshoe hares are the mainstays of their diet.
- From North America came squirrels and raccoons, bears and bison, eagles and an elk.
- Tree-dwelling squirrels have lovely bushy tails, and we realised that the little ones, from the look of them, were also from one such splendid family line.
- The ability of squirrels to harvest seed crops before they fall to the ground may make them less sensitive to species interactions on the forest floor.
- The sweet nut within the acorns is coveted by songbirds, ground birds, small mammals like squirrels and chipmunks, and even deer.
- Through time, a variety of animals will burrow into it and use it for nesting - animals like skunks, squirrels and small rodents.
- I therefore abandoned my picnic lunch and watched birds and squirrels feeding on a slab of Christmas cake and lots of sandwiches.
- If we don't finish off the pancakes I can feed them to the squirrels.
- With its stained cedar siding and peeling paint, it remained standing for five decades as field mice and squirrels occasionally ran along the pipes in the corridors.
- There are many other bulbs you can plant to brighten your spring, but daffodils are simple, they multiply and the squirrels and other rodents don't seem to like the taste very well.
- To keep squirrels, chipmunks and moles away, add human hair from your hairdresser or bloodmeal to the planting hole when planting.
- The squirrels fed out of her hands, the deer walked by her side, and every tree seemed to bow as she passed beneath it.
- My upstairs neighbor in my fourplex apartment has started feeding a squirrel peanuts.
- Children keep trying to feed the squirrels, but have yet to learn that you should not go to them, let them come to you.
- Small rodents, such as hamsters, squirrels, chipmunks, mice, and rabbits, do not typically carry rabies.
- There in the branches, also motionless, also fixed in attention, is a gray-brown squirrel with a tail so long and so absolutely pure pure white it's wonderful.
- 1.1 A related rodent of the squirrel family.
松鼠科啮齿类动物（见GROUND SQUIRREL , FLYING SQUIRREL ） See ground squirrel, flying squirrel Example sentencesExamples - Alpine marmots are large ground-dwelling squirrels living in mountain open meadows.
- The deciduous woods and associated meadows support an abundant population of fox squirrels.
- Eastern grey squirrels scurry up the Norway maple shading my bedroom window.
- When I was growing up the gray squirrels had yet to displace the red ones.
- Grey squirrels don't eat native red ones, but they do drive them out of their native habitats.
- Red squirrels scamper about, flicking their tails.
- Overhead, a fox squirrel chattered and nut tailings fell into my hair.
- Burrowing owls prefer to remodel an existing burrow, often a ground squirrel's.
- Numerous species of ground-dwelling squirrels have been described from the Blancan of the Great Plains.
- Many ground squirrels hibernate and some store food in underground burrows.
- In late summer, ground squirrels move underground to escape the dry, hot environment.
- Fox squirrels made a beeline for woodlands from almost 455 yards away.
- Not only do red squirrels not hibernate but they are very active at this time.
- Reds and greys mix in other parts of the midlands and the border counties, but Carey said the native Irish squirrel is ‘extremely rare’, particularly in the east.
- They have been found eating gray squirrels, possums, black rats, and house wrens.
- Red squirrels exhibited a similar breeding cycle to that of northern flying squirrels.
- As in ground-dwelling squirrels, factors other than social complexity may determine complexity of communication.
- A total of 137 individual northern flying squirrels were captured during the study.
- Flickers and bluebirds seek them out for nesting cavities and red squirrels eagerly cache the high-energy pine cones.
- The new guidelines will provide better management for the northern flying squirrel in West Virginia and expedite its recovery.
- 1.2mass noun The fur of the squirrel.
松鼠的毛皮 Example sentencesExamples - Collars on keys style flies can be made of squirrel, marabou, cross cut bunny and hackle and combo bunny/hackle that is wrapped around the hook and then swept back.
- This is the trade name for brushes made of squirrel, goat, pony, bear, sheep or a blend of the above.
verbsquirrels, squirreled, squirrelled, squirrelling, squirrelingˈskwɪr(ə)lˈskwər(ə)l 1squirrel something awaywith object Hide money or something of value in a safe place. 把（钱或值钱的东西）藏起来，把（钱或值钱的东西）储藏好 the money was squirrelled away in foreign bank accounts 这笔钱非常安全地存在外国银行的账户上。 Example sentencesExamples - Then, when it's time to pay for your holiday, you'll have squirreled much of it away already.
- All summer long, I was able to squirrel a little bit away here and there without Rick's knowledge.
- So bits of twine, a broken bread knife and half-empty bags of last year's mouldy bulb fibre are squirrelled away in my shed.
- Regard your wreck finds as an achievement to be celebrated, not as a naughty secret to be squirrelled away.
- She'd compulsively acquire things - if she got a hold of anything she just squirreled it away.
- Bryson's travel books, such as A Walk in the Woods about his hiking the Appalachian Trail, led him to read about the Ice Age and for years he has been squirrelling away notes about natural history.
- He could smartly whip through my belongings before the inevitable descent of mad-eyed relatives, removing anything humiliating and safely squirrelling away anything of potential historical import.
- But why squirrel your money away when there is so little good news on the savings front?
- Most property owners would applaud any effort to squirrel money away for a rainy day but the sheer size of the city's reserve accounts would indicate a closer look.
- So far this year we have squirrelled away at least 60% more of our hard cash than we did this time last year.
- People will still need to eat, and in the past there has been a short-term increase in shopping as people squirrel stuff away in case times get bad.
- We now need to have companies and all other New Zealanders following suit and beginning to squirrel funds away for their own retirement.
- But why not consider doing what many of us do, and self insure by squirreling the money you save into a savings account?
- The scale of the sudden windfall has aroused suspicions that insurers had been busy in previous years squirreling away unnecessarily high reserves.
- It is common knowledge that people save for homes, education, and other expensive items, not because they have some innate urge to squirrel some portion of their income away.
- Last June the Revenue Commissioners announced that they had taken in 650m from 11,000 people who had squirrelled away their savings in offshore locations, including the Isle of Man.
- However, is all of the money being squirreled away earning as much interest as it could be?
- The first is that Clarke's notes were squirreled away after the event.
- I wouldn't like to die having squirrelled money away all my life without having enjoyed it.
- A new analysis of the scheme from the Revenue Commissioners shows the percentage of people on lower incomes squirrelling away money has increased compared with those on middle and higher incomes.
Synonyms save, put aside, put by, lay by, set aside, lay aside, put to one side, reserve, keep in reserve, preserve, deposit, keep, store, stockpile, accumulate, collect, stock up with/on, heap up, hoard, stow away, cache, garner informal salt away, stash away 2no object, with adverbial of direction Move in an inquisitive and restless manner. 不停（或不安）地探寻 they were squirrelling around in the woods in search of something 他们焦躁不安地在树林里寻找什么东西。 Example sentencesExamples - For my test I loaded the bags, added a large duffel on the back seat and swept off with my good buddies, squirreling around Californias back roads playing Stupid Old Guys Trying To Go Fast.
- I woke up early and squirreled around the kitchen - glazing ham, making salads, chopping this and that, preparing for the evening.
- And there's Lisa Wesley and Andrew Blackwood squirrelling away in the greenhouse creating a white-washed model landscape complete with animals, flyovers, factories and numbered points of interest.
- The cops would regularly gather in the parking lot to watch for people driving drunk or simply squirreling around.
- We should cherish these glimpses of her as it won't be long before she goes to ground again, squirrelling away in her Manhattan apartment or the Virginia bolt-hole she shares with two pugs and a Boston terrier.
OriginMiddle English: shortening of Old French esquireul, from a diminutive of Latin sciurus, from Greek skiouros, from skia 'shade' + oura 'tail'. Current verb senses date from the early 20th century. A squirrel is literally a ‘shadow-tail’, an appropriate description if you picture the animal holding its long bushy tail over its back like a sunshade. The Greeks called it skiouros, based on skia ‘a shadow’ and oura ‘a tail’, and the English name evolved from this.
Definition of squirrel in US English: squirrelnounˈskwər(ə)lˈskwər(ə)l 1An agile tree-dwelling rodent with a bushy tail, typically feeding on nuts and seeds. 松鼠 Family Sciuridae: several genera, in particular Sciurus, and numerous species Example sentencesExamples - The sweet nut within the acorns is coveted by songbirds, ground birds, small mammals like squirrels and chipmunks, and even deer.
- There were squirrels everywhere in the park, with their bushy tails and all, nibbling on chestnuts fallen from the trees.
- There are many other bulbs you can plant to brighten your spring, but daffodils are simple, they multiply and the squirrels and other rodents don't seem to like the taste very well.
- Through time, a variety of animals will burrow into it and use it for nesting - animals like skunks, squirrels and small rodents.
- Children keep trying to feed the squirrels, but have yet to learn that you should not go to them, let them come to you.
- My upstairs neighbor in my fourplex apartment has started feeding a squirrel peanuts.
- The raccoons made it through the long winter as their nightly raids on our bird feeders attest, and we all know that nothing gets the best of the squirrels and chipmunks!
- If we don't finish off the pancakes I can feed them to the squirrels.
- The ability of squirrels to harvest seed crops before they fall to the ground may make them less sensitive to species interactions on the forest floor.
- Lynx feed on squirrels, birds and other small prey, but snowshoe hares are the mainstays of their diet.
- Boreal Owls prey on small mammals, including voles, mice, and small squirrels.
- To keep squirrels, chipmunks and moles away, add human hair from your hairdresser or bloodmeal to the planting hole when planting.
- I therefore abandoned my picnic lunch and watched birds and squirrels feeding on a slab of Christmas cake and lots of sandwiches.
- The squirrels fed out of her hands, the deer walked by her side, and every tree seemed to bow as she passed beneath it.
- Tree-dwelling squirrels have lovely bushy tails, and we realised that the little ones, from the look of them, were also from one such splendid family line.
- Small rodents, such as hamsters, squirrels, chipmunks, mice, and rabbits, do not typically carry rabies.
- The chestnuts nourished the locals and their livestock, provided cash from their sale to big cities by the box car, and fed such game species as bears, deer, squirrels, and turkeys.
- There in the branches, also motionless, also fixed in attention, is a gray-brown squirrel with a tail so long and so absolutely pure pure white it's wonderful.
- With its stained cedar siding and peeling paint, it remained standing for five decades as field mice and squirrels occasionally ran along the pipes in the corridors.
- From North America came squirrels and raccoons, bears and bison, eagles and an elk.
- 1.1 A related rodent of the squirrel family.
松鼠科啮齿类动物（见GROUND SQUIRREL , FLYING SQUIRREL ） See ground squirrel, flying squirrel Example sentencesExamples - In late summer, ground squirrels move underground to escape the dry, hot environment.
- The new guidelines will provide better management for the northern flying squirrel in West Virginia and expedite its recovery.
- When I was growing up the gray squirrels had yet to displace the red ones.
- Red squirrels exhibited a similar breeding cycle to that of northern flying squirrels.
- Not only do red squirrels not hibernate but they are very active at this time.
- Burrowing owls prefer to remodel an existing burrow, often a ground squirrel's.
- Red squirrels scamper about, flicking their tails.
- As in ground-dwelling squirrels, factors other than social complexity may determine complexity of communication.
- Alpine marmots are large ground-dwelling squirrels living in mountain open meadows.
- The deciduous woods and associated meadows support an abundant population of fox squirrels.
- Overhead, a fox squirrel chattered and nut tailings fell into my hair.
- Eastern grey squirrels scurry up the Norway maple shading my bedroom window.
- A total of 137 individual northern flying squirrels were captured during the study.
- Reds and greys mix in other parts of the midlands and the border counties, but Carey said the native Irish squirrel is ‘extremely rare’, particularly in the east.
- Numerous species of ground-dwelling squirrels have been described from the Blancan of the Great Plains.
- Fox squirrels made a beeline for woodlands from almost 455 yards away.
- They have been found eating gray squirrels, possums, black rats, and house wrens.
- Many ground squirrels hibernate and some store food in underground burrows.
- Grey squirrels don't eat native red ones, but they do drive them out of their native habitats.
- Flickers and bluebirds seek them out for nesting cavities and red squirrels eagerly cache the high-energy pine cones.
- 1.2 The fur of the squirrel.
松鼠的毛皮 Example sentencesExamples - This is the trade name for brushes made of squirrel, goat, pony, bear, sheep or a blend of the above.
- Collars on keys style flies can be made of squirrel, marabou, cross cut bunny and hackle and combo bunny/hackle that is wrapped around the hook and then swept back.
verbˈskwər(ə)lˈskwər(ə)l 1squirrel something awaywith object Hide money or something of value in a safe place. 把（钱或值钱的东西）藏起来，把（钱或值钱的东西）储藏好 the money was squirreled away in foreign bank accounts 这笔钱非常安全地存在外国银行的账户上。 Example sentencesExamples - He could smartly whip through my belongings before the inevitable descent of mad-eyed relatives, removing anything humiliating and safely squirrelling away anything of potential historical import.
- However, is all of the money being squirreled away earning as much interest as it could be?
- A new analysis of the scheme from the Revenue Commissioners shows the percentage of people on lower incomes squirrelling away money has increased compared with those on middle and higher incomes.
- Bryson's travel books, such as A Walk in the Woods about his hiking the Appalachian Trail, led him to read about the Ice Age and for years he has been squirrelling away notes about natural history.
- It is common knowledge that people save for homes, education, and other expensive items, not because they have some innate urge to squirrel some portion of their income away.
- We now need to have companies and all other New Zealanders following suit and beginning to squirrel funds away for their own retirement.
- People will still need to eat, and in the past there has been a short-term increase in shopping as people squirrel stuff away in case times get bad.
- So bits of twine, a broken bread knife and half-empty bags of last year's mouldy bulb fibre are squirrelled away in my shed.
- All summer long, I was able to squirrel a little bit away here and there without Rick's knowledge.
- But why squirrel your money away when there is so little good news on the savings front?
- Regard your wreck finds as an achievement to be celebrated, not as a naughty secret to be squirrelled away.
- So far this year we have squirrelled away at least 60% more of our hard cash than we did this time last year.
- But why not consider doing what many of us do, and self insure by squirreling the money you save into a savings account?
- She'd compulsively acquire things - if she got a hold of anything she just squirreled it away.
- I wouldn't like to die having squirrelled money away all my life without having enjoyed it.
- The scale of the sudden windfall has aroused suspicions that insurers had been busy in previous years squirreling away unnecessarily high reserves.
- Then, when it's time to pay for your holiday, you'll have squirreled much of it away already.
- The first is that Clarke's notes were squirreled away after the event.
- Last June the Revenue Commissioners announced that they had taken in 650m from 11,000 people who had squirrelled away their savings in offshore locations, including the Isle of Man.
- Most property owners would applaud any effort to squirrel money away for a rainy day but the sheer size of the city's reserve accounts would indicate a closer look.
Synonyms save, put aside, put by, lay by, set aside, lay aside, put to one side, reserve, keep in reserve, preserve, deposit, keep, store, stockpile, accumulate, collect, stock up on, stock up with, heap up, hoard, stow away, cache, garner 2no object, with adverbial of direction Move in an inquisitive and restless manner. 不停（或不安）地探寻 they were squirreling around in the woods in search of something 他们焦躁不安地在树林里寻找什么东西。 Example sentencesExamples - We should cherish these glimpses of her as it won't be long before she goes to ground again, squirrelling away in her Manhattan apartment or the Virginia bolt-hole she shares with two pugs and a Boston terrier.
- And there's Lisa Wesley and Andrew Blackwood squirrelling away in the greenhouse creating a white-washed model landscape complete with animals, flyovers, factories and numbered points of interest.
- The cops would regularly gather in the parking lot to watch for people driving drunk or simply squirreling around.
- I woke up early and squirreled around the kitchen - glazing ham, making salads, chopping this and that, preparing for the evening.
- For my test I loaded the bags, added a large duffel on the back seat and swept off with my good buddies, squirreling around Californias back roads playing Stupid Old Guys Trying To Go Fast.
OriginMiddle English: shortening of Old French esquireul, from a diminutive of Latin sciurus, from Greek skiouros, from skia ‘shade’ + oura ‘tail’. Current verb senses date from the early 20th century. |