marmot
noun/ˈmɑːmət/
/ˈmɑːrmət/
- a small European or American animal that lives in holes in the groundTopics Animalsc2Word Originearly 17th cent.: from French marmotte, probably via Romansch (a Romance language spoken in Switzerland) murmont from late Latin mus montanus ‘mountain mouse’; compare with French marmotter ‘mutter through the teeth’.
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