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Spermophile

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sper⋅mo⋅phile

  [spur-muh-fahyl, -fil]
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–noun
any of various burrowing rodents of the squirrel family, esp. of the genus Spermophilus (or Citellus), sometimes sufficiently numerous to do much damage to crops, as the ground squirrels and susliks.
Origin:
1815–25; spermo- + -phile, modeled on NL spermophilus
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sperm·o·phile   (spûr'mə-fīl')   
n.  The ground squirrel.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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