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gray squirrel
[ grey skwur-uhl, skwuhr鈥 ]
noun
- a gray-colored arboreal squirrel: North American species include the eastern gray squirrel ( Sciurus carolinensis ) of the eastern and midwestern U.S. and southeastern Canada, the western gray squirrel ( S. griseus ) of the coastal western U.S. and Mexico, the Arizona gray squirrel ( S. arizonensis ) of eastern Arizona and adjacent Mexico, and the Mexican gray squirrel ( S. aureogaster ), found from Guatemala north through eastern Mexico to the Florida Keys.
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of gray squirrel1
Example Sentences
On they came, day after day, a great, unrelenting tide of Sciurus carolinensis: the Eastern gray squirrel.
Wrote Seton in 鈥淢igration of the Gray Squirrel,鈥 his 1920 paper in the Journal of Mammalogy: 鈥淪uch numbers seem incredible, and yet that is what the old naturalists said they were, unbelievable, incredible, etc.鈥
You reviewed my picture and you were like, 鈥榊eah, that is a squirrel. An Eastern gray squirrel.鈥欌欌
In the process of reporting this article, Amy Harmon photographed an animal she saw in Riverside Park in Manhattan and experienced unironic elation when strangers in New York, California and Louisianaidentified it as an Eastern gray squirrel.
Birdfeeders may need squirrel-proof housing to avoid interlopers like the non-native gray squirrel.
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