[chip-muhngk] 
| any of several small, striped, terrestrial squirrels of the genera Tamias, of North America, and Eutamia, of Asia and North America, esp. T. striatus, of eastern North America. |
| chip·munk (chĭp'mŭngk') n. Any of several small striped terrestrial squirrels of the genera Tamias and Eutamias, especially T. striatus of eastern North America. [Alteration of obsolete chitmunk, perhaps from Ojibwa ajidamoon  , red squirrel.] |