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单词 hoary marmot
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hoary marmot

noun
A large stocky greyish-brown marmot with a whistling call, found in the mountains of north-western North America.
  • Marmota caligata, family Sciuridae.
The hoary marmot, so called because of the mantle of white fur which covers his shoulders and back, is well known to hikers in the western mountains of North America....
  • Presumably it (the only species of mammal unique to the island) arose from hoary marmots of the mainland that reached what is now Vancouver Island during the second last glaciation.
  • The shrill whistle of the hoary marmot is a familiar sound to Alaskans, especially to hikers with dogs.
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