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Definition of Cat squirrel

1. Noun. Common reddish-brown squirrel of Europe and parts of Asia.

2. Noun. Common medium-large squirrel of eastern North America; now introduced into England.

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Literary usage of Cat squirrel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1839)
"Whether, at a very early age, the cat squirrel may not, like the young fox squirrel, have a small deciduous tooth, I have had no means of ascertaining; ..."

2. American Natural History by John Davidson Godman (1836)
"The cat squirrel. Sciurus Cinereus; L. GMEL. cat squirrel, B. PENN. ... The cat squirrel is one of our largest species, and is found in great abundance ..."

3. Catalogue of the Hunterian Collection in the Museum of the Royal College of by Royal College of Surgeons in London Museum (1831)
"The heart of the cat squirrel (Sciurus vulpinus), injected. The vessels arise from the arch of the aorta by two trunks; the first dividing into the right ..."

4. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1838)
"cat squirrel, Pen. Arct. Zool. i. 137. A little smaller than the Fox Squirrel; ... Whether at a very early age the cat squirrel may not, like the young Fox ..."

5. Peter Parley's Annual. by William Martin (1860)
"The cat squirrel, on the contrary, is slow and timid among the branches, and rarely mounts above the first fork, unless when forced higher by the near ..."

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