woodchuck
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5.9
- noun
- /ˈwʊdˌtʃʌk/
- US
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marmota
- My son-in-law calls me to report that during his one-week absence, a woodchuck set up open house in the middle of his tomato patch and takes one bite out of each good tomato every night.
- woodchuck and a groundhog
- Woodchucks are marmots
- hunt woodchucks
And he, he wound up studying a, a little furry mammal that like a, that looked like a woodchuck called an Alpine Marmot.
- And he, he wound up studying a, a little furry mammal that like a, that looked like a woodchuck called an Alpine Marmot.
- Is The Associated Press implying that America's preeminent magical woodchuck is not a board certified epidemiologist?
Examples
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David sent some woodchucks on a ship from Philadelphia to Australia.
Blog text (20) -
Hoggles is a Groundhog, or a woodchuck, as some people prefer to call him, and he lives in our backyard.
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I told you, I'll help you catch a woodchuck or something.
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How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
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We spent a long day together in the field, talking of Canada geese, woodchucks, falcons, sun rays, and animal communication.
Fiction book (1996) -
As our students researched local animals, it was common for them to share their excitement after observing cardinals or woodchucks in their yards.
Academic text (2012) -
We spotted a woodchuck burrowing near the edge of the field.
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My neighbor saw a woodchuck munching on clover in his garden.
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After the rain, I found tracks leading to a woodchuck's den.
Synonyms
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3.5
A brown North American animal that digs a hole and looks like a large squirrel
A large brown animal like a fat squirrel that lives in holes in the ground and hibernates
Surface Forms
Etymology
Woodchuck comes from an Algonquian word wuchak that named the animal, not from wood plus the verb 'chuck' meaning 'to throw'. So woodchuck today means the groundhog, a burrowing animal often found near woods.