spermophile : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: spermophile	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for spermophile
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spermophile n any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops Synonym(s): ground squirrel, gopher, spermophile
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Spermophile \Sper"mo*phile\, n. [Gr. spe`rma a seed + fi`los loving, fond.] (Zo[94]l.) Any ground squirrel of the genus {Spermophilus}; a gopher. See Illust. under {Gopher}.