Usage examples (4)

• But for the poor spermophile nothing I could do in the way of revival was of any avail.
• Every boy and girl loves the little fairy, airy striped chipmunk, half squirrel, half spermophile.
• In the Middle West, especially in Indiana, the little spermophile, sometimes called the ground-squirrel, is common and not afraid to venture into the outskirts of a village.
• ( "Prehistoric Europe," p. 95.) (10) The northern animals include the following: Alpine hare, musk-sheep, glutton, reindeer, arctic fox, lemming, tailless hare, marmot,...