Crossword-Solution: CYNOMYS
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| MARMOT-related genus | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with CYNOMYS (5)
The large tribe, of the marmots, which includes the three large genuses of Arctomys, Cynomys, and Spermophilus, is still more sociable and still more intelligent.
The baculum in _Tamias_, in general plan of structure, resembles that in _Spermophilus_ (=_Citellus_) and _Cynomys_ of the tribe Marmotini Simpson.
The prairie dogs (Cynomys), the tree porcupine (Erethizon), the curious sewellel (Haploodon), and the opossum (Didelphys) complete the list of peculiar mammalia which distinguish the northern region of the new world from that of the old.
The following mammals, typical of grassland, are absent: black-tailed jack rabbit (_Lepus californicus_), black-tailed prairie dog (_Cynomys ludovicianus_), 13-lined ground squirrel (_Spermophilus tridecemlineatus_), Franklin's ground squirrel (_Spermophilus franklinii_), southern lemming-mouse (_Synaptomys cooperi_), and of course, the buffalo (_Bison bison_), and the prong-horned antelope (_Antilocapra americana_) long extinct in this part of their range.
Henceforth no visit to the Zoo will be, to me, complete without a few minutes' contemplation of the _Cynomys Ludovicianus_ in his quick-change turn.