Noun:

மர்மொட்,

marmot தமிழ் அர்த்தத்தின் உதாரணம்:

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marmot's Usage Examples:

wild yaks, wild asses (kulans), antelopes (orongo and others), marmots, hares and partridges exist locally in large numbers.

- The Sciuroidea, which include the great group of squirrels, sousliks, marmots, 'c.

The chamois, bouquetin and marmot are found only in the Alps, not at all in the Apennines.

SOUSLIK, or SUSLIK, the vernacular name of a European burrowing rodent mammal, nearly allied to the marmots, but of much smaller size and of more slender and squirrel-like build (see RODENTIA).

In the higher mountainous parts animal life is more abundant, the typical forms being the wild yak, the kulan or wild ass, the arkhari or wild sheep, the orongo and other antelopes, the marmot, wolf, hare partridge and bear.

In a great degree prairie-marmots, of which there are several species in North America, ranging as far south as Mexico, are intermediate between marmots and sousliks (see SousLIK), having the cheekpouches much smaller than in the latter, and the first front-toe, which is rudimentary in marmots and sousliks, well developed.

In America marmots are known as "wood-chucks" The Alpine Marmot (Arctomys marmotta).

Among the rodents there are hares, marmots, beavers, squirrels, rats and mice, the last in enormous swarms.

The various species of rapacious animals are disappearing, together with the colonies of marmots; the insectivores are also becoming scarce in consequence of the destruction of insects; while vermin, such as the suslik, or pouched marmot (Spermophilus), and the destructive insects which are a scourge to agriculture, become a real plague.

The prairie-dogs, or prairie-marmots, Cynomys, are a North American group, in which the five-toed forefeet have the claw of the first as large as that of the fifth toe.

Synonyms:

woodchuck, gnawer, groundhog, genus Marmota, yellowbelly marmot, rodent, Marmota caligata, Marmota flaviventris, rockchuck, Marmota monax, Marmota, whistling marmot, hoary marmot, whistler,

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