Sciurus

noun

Sci·​urus

sīˈ(y)u̇rəs

: the type genus of Sciuridae formerly including all the squirrels but now restricted to a cosmopolitan group of typical moderate sized arboreal squirrels

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from Latin, squirrel

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