Noun:

மர்மொட்,

marmots தமிழ் அர்த்தத்தின் உதாரணம்:

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marmots'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.

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 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.

WOODCHUCK, the vernacular name of the common North American representative of the marmots (see Marmot), scientifically known as Arctomys monax.

Characteristic forms of this order in northern Asia are the marmots (Arctomys) and the pikas, or tailless hares (Lagomys).

All, however, have large cheek-pouches, whence the name of pouched marmots, by which they are sometimes called; and they have the first fronttoe rudimentary, as in marmots.

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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