Crossword-Solution: TAMIAS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tamias | n. | A genus of ground squirrels, including the chipmunk. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TAMIAS | anagram | AIMSAT, AMATIS, MIATAS |
We have 2 clues for the answer “TAMIAS”
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| genus squirrel | 1 answer |
| squirrel genus | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MEZCAE
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eruption
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Sentences with TAMIAS (5)
The chipping or striped squirrel, _Sciurus striatus_ (_Tamias Lysteri_, Aud.), sat upon the end of some Virginia fence or rider reaching over the stream, twirling a green nut with one paw, as in a lathe, while the other held it fast against its incisors as chisels.
How commonly in the fall you see the cheek-pouches of the striped squirrel distended by a quantity of nuts! This species gets its scientific name _Tamias_, or the steward, from its habit of storing up nuts and other seeds.
Etym: [Indian name.] (Zoöl.) Defn: A squirrel-like animal of the genus Tamias, sometimes called the striped squirrel, chipping squirrel, ground squirrel, hackee.
The characters given to separate '_Eutamias_' from _Tamias_ are based only on the absence or presence of the functionless premolar, and on the colour pattern.
The structural features and characters to be discussed, or listed, below may be arranged in three categories as follows: 1) Characters in which the subgenera _Eutamias_ and _Neotamias_ agree but are different from the genus _Tamias_; 2) Characters in which the subgenus _Eutamias_ and the genus _Tamias_ agree but are different from the subgenus _Neotamias_; 3) Structural features that are too weakly expressed to be of taxonomic use.