grey squirrel

noun

a grey-furred squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis, native to E North America but now widely established

Once upon a time there was a little fat comfortable grey squirrel, called Timmy Tiptoes.

We saw numbers of the grey squirrel, which was served up to us in the inn as a delicacy.

The good mother understood him perfectly, and from a chair on which his clothes were lying she picked up his little grey squirrel.

Vair is supposed to represent little grey squirrel skins spread out and arranged touching each other.

A small blot moved up and down the chequered trunk of the tree, and that was the shadow of a grey squirrel, watching the dancing.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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