Definitions
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- adjective having the approximate size of a squirrel
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Examples
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She also is credited with leading a successful program to bolster the population of golden lion tamarins, endangered squirrel-sized monkeys that live in South America.
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#2–Male hunters did go on big game hunts, but probably only once a month at most; most of the animal food that people ate was deer size or even smaller game like rabbits and squirrel-sized which women also hunted.
Rapid health improvements with a Paleolithic diet | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009
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A new order of mammals has been named based on a recently discovered fossil of a squirrel-sized animal that lived at least 130 million years ago and was capable of gliding flight.
Science 2006
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The squirrel-sized numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus, VU), is one example - the marsupial equivalent to the anteaters of South America and also known by the names of walpurti or banded anteater, the numbat is the only member of the family Myrmecobiidae.
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Two raccoon-sized traps, two gray squirrel-sized traps and a flying-squirrel/chipmunk trap were baited with peanut butter and Slim
CapeCodToday Blog Chowder Bethany 2010
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A new long-tongued, squirrel-sized species of lemur has been discovered in Madagascar, researchers report today Dec. 13.
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All the marks were only 4 to 7 millimeters long and 1 millimeter wide, suggesting they were made by squirrel-sized animals.
Livescience.com 2010
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Dr Mittermeier first saw the squirrel-sized creature in Daraina, a protected area in the northeast of Madagascar.
BBC News - Home 2010
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He shared the findings with Longrich, and the two teamed up to document a number of such specimens and determined that an unknown species of multituberculate possibly the furry, squirrel-sized ptilodus dug its teeth into the dead dinosaurs bones to extract calcium for its own bones.
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Two raccoon-sized traps, two gray squirrel-sized traps and a flying-squirrel/chipmunk trap were baited with peanut butter and Slim
CapeCodToday Blog Chowder Bethany 2010
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