ground squirrel noun2 •Any of a number of medium-sized squirrel-like burrowing rodents of the tribe Marmotini (i.e., excluding the smaller chipmunks and the larger marmots and prairie dogs).Earely antelopes are seen, but wolves, rabbits, and sundry ground squirrels abound. — 1895 •Any of the other squirrel-like burrowing rodents of the subfamily Marmotinae. formsground squirrels
