词汇 | woodchuck |
词源 | woodchuck. A New England name for the groundhog (Mar- mota monax), woodchuck probably derives from a New England Algonquian Indian word meaning the same. “A boy always had woodchuck holes to explore after the leaves were down in the fall . . . ,” Mayden Pearson wrote in New England Flavor, 1961. See also groundhog. |
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