spermophila

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun In ornithology, the little seed-eaters or pygmy finches, an extensive genus of small American fringilline birds, with very short stout bills like a bullfinch's, giving name to the subfamily Spermophilinæ.
• noun In mammalogy, same as Spermophilus, 1.
• noun In entomology, a genus of arachnidans.