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Definition of Eastern gray squirrel
1. Noun. Common medium-large squirrel of eastern North America; now introduced into England.
Generic synonyms: Tree Squirrel
Group relationships: Genus Sciurus, Sciurus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eastern Gray Squirrel
Literary usage of Eastern gray squirrel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Animals: The Mammals by Ernest Ingersoll (1907)
"When in this position it is exceedingly difficult to see, though considerably
larger than our eastern gray squirrel; and even the white under side of the ..."
2. Animal Studies: A Text-book of Elementary Zoology for Use in High Schools by David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Harold Heath (1903)
"Thus Sciurus hudsonicus is the name of the red squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis of
the eastern gray squirrel, and Sciurus ludovicianus of the fox squirrel; ..."
3. The Grizzly Bear: The Narrative of a Hunter-naturalist, Historical by William Henry Wright (1909)
"One of them is about as large as an eastern gray squirrel, but they are slightly
different in shape, being less long and slim, and in fact more like ..."
4. Outlines of Economic Zoölogy by Albert Moore Reese (1919)
"... Citellus beecheyi, which is of about the same size and general appearance as
the eastern gray squirrel, though not so handsome an animal. ..."
5. The Grizzly Bear: The Narrative of a Hunter-naturalist, Historical by William Henry Wright (1909)
"One of them is about as large as an eastern gray squirrel, but they are slightly
different in shape, being less long and slim, and in fact more like ..."
6. Mammals of the Mexican Boundary of the United States: A Descriptive by Edgar Alexander Mearns (1907)
"Its habits and actions closely resemble those of the eastern gray squirrel.
I found it in August in the deciduous timber in the canyon of Pine Creek, ..."
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