fox squirrel

noun

any of several North American arboreal squirrels varying in color and of an exceptionally large size.

fox squirrel

An Americanism dating back to 1675–85

The Jacobs lab studies cognition in free-ranging fox squirrels on the Berkeley campus.

Gray squirrels and the young of the fox-squirrel eat the buds and flowers as well as the cone-shaped fruit.

There is a fox squirrel over yonder somewhere, beyond the ruins of the old arch.

Jim got a mallard, Woodruff a fox squirrel—and one whose name we will not disclose shot a young pig.

"Witch or not, I like her;" and Bessie Lane tossed up her hat, and pranced off after a fox squirrel just down the road.

Sometimes she brought in birds that we had never seen before, and occasionally a flying squirrel, chipmunk, or big fox squirrel.

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