black squirrel

noun

1. a fox squirrel or gray squirrel in that color phase in which the fur is black.

Word History and Origins

Origin of black squirrel¹

An Americanism dating back to 1595–1605

Example Sentences

Some boys had caught a Mexican black squirrel, nearly as large as a cat.

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There was a bustle in a hickory—a black squirrel was flirting about, and making an examination of the crop.

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A black squirrel chattered at him, and hid itself on the far side of a cedar tree.

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The black squirrel, Weld says, is also peculiar to North America.

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The only quadruped which we saw in the woods, was a large species of black squirrel.

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