PRAIRIE DOG


Meaning of PRAIRIE DOG in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ noun ]

Date: 1774

: any of a genus ( Cynomys ) of gregarious burrowing rodents of the squirrel family chiefly of central and western United States plains ; especially : a black-tailed rodent ( C. ludovicianus ) that usually lives in extensive colonial burrows

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