CHIPMUNK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chipmunk mean? 

• CHIPMUNK (noun)
  The noun CHIPMUNK has 1 sense:

1. a burrowing ground squirrel of western America and Asia; has cheek pouches and a light and dark stripe running down the body

  Familiarity information: CHIPMUNK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHIPMUNK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A burrowing ground squirrel of western America and Asia; has cheek pouches and a light and dark stripe running down the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("chipmunk" is a kind of...):

squirrel (a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail)

Holonyms ("chipmunk" is a member of...):

Eutamias; genus Eutamias (chipmunks of western America and Asia)

 Context examples 

He could take a ptarmigan from its nest, kill a rabbit as it slept, and snap in mid air the little chipmunks fleeing a second too late for the trees.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)