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Prairie dog   /prˈɛri dɔg/   Listen
Prairie dog

noun
1.
Any of several rodents of North American prairies living in large complex burrows having a barking cry.  Synonym: prairie marmot.



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"Prairie dog" Quotes from Famous Books



... ticket to a small town in Wyoming. There he and his steamer-trunk boarded Thompson's stage, and journeyed to Placer Creek, where the two of them, he and the trunk, took up their quarters in a little board-ceiled room in the Prairie Dog Hotel. ...
— Blazed Trail Stories - and Stories of the Wild Life • Stewart Edward White
... fighting man—they're always giving them leave—but all I got was six weeks at Havre in hospital. Then it was the Dardanelles, and sunstroke and sand; sleeping in sand, eating sand, sand in your boots, sand in your teeth; hiding in holes in the sand like a dirty prairie dog. And then, 'Off to Servia!' And the next act opens in the snow and the mud! Cold? God, how cold it was! And most of ...
— The Lost Road • Richard Harding Davis


Words linked to "Prairie dog" :   Cynomys ludovicianus, gnawer, Cynomys, genus Cynomys, rodent, Cynomys gunnisoni


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