| 单词 | black-tailed prairie dog |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblack-tailed prairie dog 1. Any of several North American rodents constituting the genus Cynomys (family Sciuridae), which resemble marmots, live gregariously in extensive burrow systems in grassland (known as ‘towns’), and have a call resembling a dog's bark; esp. (more fully black-tailed prairie dog) the widespread C. ludovicianus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > [noun] > family Sciuridae (squirrel) > genus Cynomys (prairie-dog) prairie dog1804 wishtonwish1806 prairie squirrel1808 squirrel1808 prairie marmot1826 1804 W. Clark in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1904) I. 143 I walked on Shore all this evening with a view to Kill a goat or Some Prarie Dogs. 1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies xxxii, in Crayon Misc. I. 241 The prairie dog is an animal of the coney kind, and about the size of a rabbit. He is of a sprightly mercurial nature; quick, sensitive, and somewhat petulant. 1870 De B. R. Keim Sheridan's Troopers 301 Early in the afternoon we entered a prairie-dog town. 1902 O. Wister Virginian xvi. 176 There is a brown skunk down in Arkansaw. Kind of prairie-dog brown. 1932 S. Zuckerman Social Life Monkeys & Apes ii. 23 Most writers describe the prairie dog of North America as an animal that lives in vast colonies. 1963 Amer. Midland Naturalist 70 235 These include such species as the black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus). 1992 Buzzworm Nov. 13/1 The Denver archdiocese plans to hire a Colorado company to mechanically suck prairie dogs out of the ground. < as lemmas |
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