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fox squirrel
noun
- any of several North American arboreal squirrels varying in color and of an exceptionally large size.
fox squirrel
noun
- a large squirrel, Sciurus niger , occurring in E North America
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fox squirrel1
An Americanism dating back to 1675–85
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Example Sentences
The Jacobs lab studies cognition in free-ranging fox squirrels on the Berkeley campus.
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Gray squirrels and the young of the fox-squirrel eat the buds and flowers as well as the cone-shaped fruit.
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There is a fox squirrel over yonder somewhere, beyond the ruins of the old arch.
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Jim got a mallard, Woodruff a fox squirrel—and one whose name we will not disclose shot a young pig.
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"Witch or not, I like her;" and Bessie Lane tossed up her hat, and pranced off after a fox squirrel just down the road.
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Sometimes she brought in birds that we had never seen before, and occasionally a flying squirrel, chipmunk, or big fox squirrel.
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