Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The, prairie-dog of North America, Cynomys ludovicianus. See cut under
prairie-dog , and compare second cut underowl . - noun [Misunderstood by Cooper as a name for the whippoor-will, it was so used by him in his novel “The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish,” and elsewhere.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The prairie dog.
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- noun US, obsolete The
prairie dog .
Etymologies
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From a Native American word which was an onomatopoeic representation of the animals' cry.
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