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词汇 squirrel
释义 squirrel
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈskwɪr.əl/ us /ˈskwɝː.əl/
a small animal covered in fur with a long tail. Squirrels climb trees and feed on nuts and seeds.松鼠
 
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squirrel | American Dictionary


squirrel
noun[ C ]
us/ˈskwɜr·əl/
a small furry animal with a long tail which climbs trees and feeds on nuts and seeds

Examples of squirrel


squirrel
Captive agoutis and squirrels readily ate larvae when presented without the surrounding endocarp, and preferred larvae to seeds.
A small proportion of fruits were destroyed by squirrels (0.8% at seven trees) or removed by some unknown vertebrate (1.6% at three trees).
We were able to trace these projections in squirrel and macaque monkeys.
We also describe experiments involving transfer of squirrel serum to mice to check if serum factors are involved in such changes.
A few species were confined to the forest zone (red-flanked duiker, pangolin, civet, ground squirrel).
These proportions are derived from regression lines plotted of data from blood counts of 40 infected squirrels at first capture.
For grey squirrels the expansion in tetrads occupied appeared to rise asymptotically, with the expansion declining after 1999.
In the squirrel monkey, nothing is known about the timing of the formation of ocular dominance columns.
This effect also occurs in those normal squirrel monkeys that have well-segregated ocular dominance columns.
A nutritional comparison of selected fox squirrel foods.
Indicating that contact and infection probabilities both determined the extent to which the red squirrel population declined.
Additional sampling from wild-captured squirrels over several seasons and controlled laboratory experiments are needed to address these hypotheses.
Finally, many basic anatomical and physiological properties in the early visual system of squirrel have now been described, permitting investigations of cellular mechanisms.
All five squirrel monkeys raised with strabismus exhibited well-developed ocular dominance columns in striate cortex of each hemisphere.
Each of the three captive squirrels first consumed nine or ten larvae before eating any seeds.
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