Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Squirrel-like; related to Sciurus, or belonging to the Sciuridæ; especially, of or pertaining to the Sciurinæ.
- noun A squirrel; a member of the Sciuridæ, and especially of the Sciurinæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Squirrel family.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to
squirrels - noun A member of the
squirrel family.
Etymologies
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Latin sciurus ("squirrel"), from Ancient Greek σκίουρος (skiouros, "squirrel"), from σκιά (skia, "shadow") + οὐρά (oura, "tail").
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Examples
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After I get a new customer and take him for a ride, there's a sciurine power vacuum that lasts about two weeks.
"I have scraped many squirrels off roads." Ann Althouse 2007
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A Northern Ireland woman is on the front line of the ongoing battle against grey squirrel hordes after her house was invaded by massed sciurine forces, the BBC reports.
The Register 2009
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Irish elk W 1891 O megacerotine (extinct) salamandrine salamander Irish elk 1884 OW 1712-1888 OW megatherine (extinct) sciurine squirrel 1842 -
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