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Definition of Flickertail
1. Noun. Of sagebrush and grassland areas of western United States and Canada.
Generic synonyms: Gopher, Ground Squirrel, Spermophile
Definition of Flickertail
1. Noun. A North American ground squirrel, ''Citellus richardsoni''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flickertail
Literary usage of Flickertail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. U. S. Marines in the Persian Gulf, 1990-1991: With Marine Forces Afloat in edited by Ronald J. Brown (2000)
"The auxiliary crane ship USNS flickertail State (T-ACS 5) carried 192 ...
These black-bottom ships could make 20 knots and the flickertail State could ..."
2. Bulletin by North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station (Fargo) (1899)
"flickertail 218 Foxtail 218 Foxtail, Yellow 214 French Weed 228 Great Ragweed ...
230 Hare's Ear Mustard 222 Harrows and Weeders 211 High Water Shrub 231 ..."
3. Decimal Classification and Relativ Index for Libraries, Clippings, Notes, Etc by Melvil Dewey (1919)
"... in 1910 49 counties Sobriquet: flickertail state Capital: Bismarck Montana 26
May 1864 territory organized. Name means Mountain land 8 Nov. ..."
4. Operation and Maintenance of Irrigation Systems by Sidney Twitchell Harding (1917)
"The flickertail or Richardson ground squirrel is found in Montana and adjoining
States. The larger and darker Columbian ground squirrel is common in the ..."
5. The Ohio Educational Monthly and the National Teacher: A Journal of Education by Ohio State Teachers Association (1892)
"... Montana, Stubbed Toe State; North Dakota, flickertail State; South Dakota,
Swinged Cat State. Q. 306.—The northern part of Norway and Sweden is called ..."
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