Hypertext Webster Gateway: "spermophile"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Spermophile \Sper"mo*phile\, n. [Gr. spe`rma a seed + fi`los
loving, fond.] (Zo["o]l.)
Any ground squirrel of the genus {Spermophilus}; a gopher.
See Illust. under {Gopher}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
spermophile
n : any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New
Worlds; often destroy crops [syn: {ground squirrel}, {gopher}]
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