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Definition: Woodchuck |
WoodchuckNoun1. Reddish brown North American marmot. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "woodchuck" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Woodchuck or Groundhog 
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Sciuridae Subfamily: Sciurinae Genus: Marmota Species: monax The groundhog or woodchuck, Marmota monax, is a rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots. Most marmots live in rocky and mountainous areas, but the woodchuck is a creature of the lowlands. It is widely distributed in North America, from Alaska to Alabama and Georgia, though it is not found in the western United States (apart from Alaska and northern Washington).
Woodchucks are typically 40-65cm long (including a 15-cm tail) and weigh 2-4 kilograms.
The woodchuck is one of a small number of species that have grown greatly in numbers since the arrival of European settlers in North America, since the clearing of forests provided it with much suitable habitat. It prefers open country and the edges of woodland. As a consequence, it is a familiar animal to many people in the United States and Canada.
Woodchucks are excellent burrowers, and they use burrows for sleeping, rearing young, and hibernation.
In the United States, there is a Groundhog Day celebration that gives the woodchuck some added popularity.
The woodchuck is also the arch-nemesis of The Internet Oracle
External links
- The Canadian Wildlife Service's woodchuck site: http://www.cws-scf.ec.gc.ca/hww-fap/hww-fap.cfm?ID_species=79&lang=e
- http://www.conservation.state.mo.us/nathis/mammals/woodchuck/
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Groundhog."
Synonym: WoodchuckSynonym: groundhog (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Regularity of recurrence Periodicity | Rota, cycle, period, stated time, routine; days of the week; Sunday, Monday; months of the year; January; feast, fast; Christmas, Easter, New Year's day; Allhallows, Allhallowmas, All Saints' Day; All Souls', All Souls' Day; Ash Wednesday, bicentennial, birthday, bissextile, Candlemas, Dewali, groundhog day, Halloween, Hallowmas, Lady day, leap year, Midsummer day, Muharram, woodchuck day, St. Swithin's day, natal day; yearbook; yuletide. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Woodchuck |
| Specialty definitions using "woodchuck": Hepadnaviridae. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Tongue Twisters | How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood? (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | ||
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Books | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | He was so genuine and unsophisticated that no introduction would serve to introduce him, more than if you introduced a woodchuck to your neighbor |
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| "Woodchuck" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Woodchuck" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "woodchuck"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | marmotë amerikane. (various references) | |
Arabic | مرموط حيوان. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сев.-ам. мармот. (various references) | |
Chinese | 土拨 . (various references) | |
French | marmotte d'amérique. (various references) | |
German | Waldmurmeltier. (various references) | |
Greek | αρκτόμυσ (marmot). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מרמיט" (dormouse, marmot). (various references) | |
Hungarian | mormota (marmot), amerikai mormota (ground hog, groundhog). (various references) | |
Korean | 우"척. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oodchuckway.(various references) | |
Russian | сурок (ground hog, groundhog, marmot). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vrsta krtice. (various references) | |
Spanish | marmota de américa. (various references) | |
Swedish | murmeldjur (marmot). (various references) | |
Turkish | dağsıçanı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | лісовий бабак. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "woodchuck": woodchucks. (additional references) | |
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"Woodchuck" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: woodchuk, woodchunk. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-d-h-k-o-o-u-w" | |
-3 letters: cuckoo. | |
-4 letters: chock, chook, chuck, cooch, couch. | |
-5 letters: chow, coco, coho, cook, dhow, dock, duck, hock, hood, hook, howk, huck, kudo, ouch, wood. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-d-h-k-o-o-u-w" | |
+1 letter: woodchucks. | |
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