marmot
/ˈmɑːmət
/noun
A heavily built, gregarious burrowing rodent of mountainous country in both Eurasia and North America.
- Genus Marmota, family Sciuridae: several species.
- Some of these destructive species include beavers, muskrats, elk, deer, voles, marmots, prairie dogs and geese.
- Stop along this byway to hike across broad plateaus and to admire Rocky Mountain goats, moose, black bears, grizzly bears, marmots, and mule deer.
Origin
Early 17th century: from French marmotte, probably via Romansh murmont from late Latin mus montanus 'mountain mouse'.
Rhymes
- acceptivity
- acceptor
- access
- accessary
- access charge
- access code
- access course
- access fee
- accessibility
- accessible
- accessibleness
- accessibly
- accession
- accessional
- accession day
- accessive
- accessively
- accessless
- accessorial
- accessorily
- accessoriness
- accessorise
- accessorize
- accessory
- accessory before (or after) the fact