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单词 squirrelling
释义

squirrel /skwirˈəl/

noun
  1. A nimble, bushy-tailed arboreal rodent (Sciurus or kindred genus)
  2. The pelt of such an animal
  3. A person who hoards things (figurative)
adjective

Made of squirrel pelts

transitive verb

To hoard (usu with away)

ORIGIN: OFr escurel, from LL scurellus, dimin of L sciūrus, from Gr skiouros, from skiā shade, and ourā tail

squirrˈelly or squirrˈely adjective

  1. Like a squirrel
  2. Nervous, jumpy

squirrel cage noun

  1. A cage with a treadwheel for a squirrel (or other small animal)
  2. In an induction motor, a rotor whose winding suggests this
  3. Any seemingly endless and purposeless situation, task, etc

squirrel fish noun

Any of various brightly-coloured marine fishes of the family Holocentridae of shallow tropical waters, so called because their large eyes resemble those of the squirrel

squirrel monkey noun

A small golden-haired S American monkey, Saimiri sciureus

squirrel shrew noun

A tree shrew

squirrˈel-tail noun

  1. A grass (Hordeum marinum) of European marshland with long hairlike awns (in full squirrel-tail grass)
  2. A broad-tailed lobworm (Walton)
  3. A cap of squirrel skins, with a tail hanging down behind

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