英语词汇“squirrel-tails”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

squirrel-tails

释义

squirrel /skwirˈəl/

noun

A nimble, bushy-tailed arboreal rodent (Sciurus or kindred genus)
The pelt of such an animal
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

Like a squirrel
Nervous, jumpy

squirrel cage noun

A cage with a treadwheel for a squirrel (or other small animal)
In an induction motor, a rotor whose winding suggests this
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

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

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