marmot

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++mar·mot /ˈmɑːmət $ ˈmɑːr-/ noun [countable]  a small European or American animal with fur and short front legs which lives under the ground 旱獭，土拨鼠

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marmot• In marmots, large ground-dwelling squirrels, for example, adult males are territorial and aggressive.• My friend had a leopard skin and I had a coney seal with a mink marmot collar and cuffs.• Maybe after a few thousand years of marmot for breakfast, dinner and tea they fancied a change.• Visitors also can see coyotes, chipmunks, raccoons, marmots and vole.• And then something happened to disturb the marmots.• William didn't know why the fleas left the marmots for the rats.• Because unlike the marmots, the rats had no resistance to the disease that the fleas carried.Origin marmot (1600-1700) French marmotte

mar·mot nounChineseSyllable  

animal Corpus small or and fur European with American a

marmot
mar‧mot /ˈmɑːmət $ ˈmɑːr-/ noun [countable]a small European or American animal with fur and short front legs which lives under the ground

mar·motBrE /ˈmɑːmət/ 🔊NAmE /ˈmɑːrmət/ 🔊 nouna small European or American animal that lives in holes in the ground 旱獭，土拨鼠（居于地穴，分布于欧洲及美洲）