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Definition of Squirrel
Squirrel

Any one of numerous species of small rodents belonging to the genus Sciurus and several allied genera of the family Sciuridae. Squirrels generally have a bushy tail, large erect ears, and strong hind legs. They are commonly arboreal in their habits, but many species live in burrows.

One of the small rollers of a carding machine which work with the large cylinder.

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Squirrel Quotations

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
Henry David Thoreau

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
George Eliot

Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate.
Ken Kesey

You can't be friends with a squirrel! A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit.
Sarah Jessica Parker

A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit!
Sarah Jessica Parker

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
Hal Borland

I had to make squirrel noises as Bubbles and without realizing it, I was making the face and putting my fingers up to my face to look like a squirrel and everyone made fun of me for the rest of the day.
Tara Strong

Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.
Nazim Hikmet

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.
Rupert Sheldrake

I'm not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain.
Jessica Biel

Squirrel Translations

squirrel in Afrikaans is eekhoring, eekhorinkie
squirrel in Danish is egern
squirrel in Dutch is eekhoorn
squirrel in Finnish is orava
squirrel in Italian is scoiattolo
squirrel in Portuguese is esquilo
squirrel in Spanish is ardilla
squirrel in Swedish is ekorre


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